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<br />Busy Road Repair Season Gets Early Start in Eugene <br />News Release – <br />April 15, 2010 <br />Page 2 <br /> <br />Also in late April, crews from Knife River Corporation will begin constructing asphalt <br />thth <br />overlays on Garfield Street (Sixth to 11 avenues), High Street (Third to 17 avenues), Crescent <br />Avenue (Game Farm Road to Shadow View), and West First Avenue (Seneca to Bertelsen <br />roads). Funding for those projects comes primarily from state highway and federal stimulus <br />funds. <br />Other streets up for repairs this summer: Goodpasture Island Road (Delta Highway to <br />thndthth <br />Kingsley), Willamette Street (46 to 52 avenues), Hawkins Lane (18 Avenue to Videra), 18 <br />rd <br />Avenue (Chambers to City View streets), Harlow Road (I-5 to Coburg Road), 33 Avenue <br />thrdth <br />(Hilyard to Willamette streets), Patterson Street (13 to 23 avenues), 18 Avenue (Hilyard to <br />rd <br />Patterson streets), 23 Avenue (Hilyard to Patterson streets), Valley River Drive (Willagillespie <br />th <br />Road to Goodpasture Island Road), Oakway Road (Cal Young Road to Fairway Loop), 13 <br />th <br />Avenue (Alder to Washington streets), West 11 Avenue (Garfield to Tyinn streets), Crest Drive <br />area streets (phase 2 of the project that began last year), and more than a dozen local streets <br />that will receive slurry seal treatments. <br />Bike path projects include bond-funded major repairs to the Fern Ridge Path from Polk <br />to Chambers streets and possibly the extension of the West Bank Trail, which also will be <br />affected by construction of a culvert south of Copping Street. <br />With this much work on the schedule, it’s inevitable that motorists will encounter detours <br />and delays, said Eric Jones, the public affairs manager for Eugene Public Works. “In addition to <br />ththth <br />having arterials such as 11, 13 and 18 avenue under construction, there are going to be <br />places where the number of projects in one area add up to major disruption,” Jones said. <br />Among those hot spots: Goodpasture Island Road, where bridge work, road repaving and a <br />major culvert installation are all scheduled this summer; and the Harlow Road area, which will <br />see not only repairs on the Eugene side of the I-5 bridge but also work on Harlow/Hayden <br />Bridge and the widening of Gateway Street on the Springfield side of the freeway. <br /> <br />(More) <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />Public Works Administration ? City of Eugene ? 101 E. Broadway, Suite 400, Eugene, OR 97401 <br />Phone 541-682-8421 ? Fax 541-682-6826 ? www.eugene-or.gov/pw <br /> <br />