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<br /> ~ ~ it <br /> I I Q~~~N DEPggT~~2 <br /> O <br /> ws Release~~~,o <br /> Ne 9 <br /> 4~/SPOP~P <br /> July 5, 2001 , <br /> CONTACT: ,Don McLane, ODOT Assistant Project Manager, 744-8080 <br /> Byron Inman, ODOT Project Manager, 744-8080 <br /> ',Gary McNeel, City of Eugene Traffic Operations Supervisor, 682-8451 <br /> From Public I formation Section, 682-5523 <br /> FOR IMMEDI TE RELEASE <br /> ROYAL A ENUE CLOSED JULY 10-13 DURING DAYTIME FOR RECONSTRUCTION <br /> Royal ,venue will be closed daily from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. beginning Tuesday, July 10, <br /> through Frida I ,July 13. The closure will allow crews to reconstruct the street now that the Belt <br /> Line overcrossing at Royal has been opened. <br /> During reconstruction, the road will be graveled and opened overnight to two lanes of <br /> traffic. AsphalMt paving is scheduled Friday, July 13, weather permitting, which will allow the <br /> street to be r~opened as a paved road by the weekend. The following week, Royal will remain <br /> open as the contractor constructs curbs. Once that work is finished, a shorter daytime closure <br /> will be required to complete the final asphalt paving. <br /> While ~toyal is closed, through traffic will be directed to use Roosevelt Boulevard or <br /> Barger Avenue as alternate routes. Message boards will be put up this week notifying local <br /> traffic of the pllanned closure. <br /> The O egon Department of Transportation began construction in January 2000 on the <br /> two-year, $9. million project to widen and improve Belt Line Highway from just north of Royal <br /> Avenue to th~ railroad overcrossing south of Roosevelt. The new overcrossing at Royal <br /> became operational in June. The Belt Line project is scheduled to be completed later this year. <br /> For updates on area road construction, call the City of Eugene's traffic relief hotline, <br /> 984-8484, or en the Internet at www.ci.eugene.or.us/pw/traffic. <br /> <br />