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<br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />September 7, 2012 <br /> <br />CONTACT: <br />John Bonham, Project Manager, 541-682-5300 <br /> <br />From Public Information Section, 541-682-5523 or 541-954-2938 <br /> <br />FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE <br /> <br /> <br />Work Starts Monday on Repairs to North Bank Path <br />Work is scheduled to begin Monday on a $700,000 project to improve a portion of the <br />North Bank Path in Alton Baker Park. <br />Kipco, Inc., of Eugene has been awarded the bid to repair about 2/3 of a mile of the <br />riverbank multi-use path between the DeFazio Bridge and Leisure Lane. The work includes <br />replacing slippery exposed-aggregate surfaces and rebuilding thin and narrow asphalt sections <br />to a standard 12-foot-wide concrete surface. Lighting will be installed along the path between <br />the DeFazio Bridge and the boat landing; no lighting will be installed east of the boat landing. <br />Beginning Wednesday, the North Bank Path will be closed between the DeFazio Bridge <br />and Leisure Lane. Cyclists and pedestrians will be detoured on Day Island Road. Access will be <br />maintained to the boat landing, the picnic shelters and the Cuthbert Amphitheater and other <br />locations along Day Island Road. <br />Plans call for the work to be substantially completed by late October. Funding for the <br />project is coming from federal grant programs, with the local match provided from the City’s <br />transportation system development charge fund. <br />Meanwhile, work continues on repairs to the West Bank Path from the Greenway Bridge <br />near Valley River Center to Stephens Lane off River Road. That project is scheduled to be <br />completed in mid-October. <br />For updates on this and other bike and road work projects, go to <br />www.keepusmoving.info. <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 />