[PTChamber] Fwd: FW: WSDOT NEWS: Hood Canal Bridge Closure Updates

[PT Chamber of Commerce]

>Dear Chamber members:

Here are the scheduled Hood Canal Bridge closure dates:

>
>WASHINGTON STATE DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION Olympic Region - PO Box 47440
>- Olympia, WA  98504-7440 - (360) 357-2600
>
>FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
>May 25, 2005
>
>LB05-40
>
>Contacts:  Lloyd Brown, Communication Manager,  (360) 357-2789
>
>PUBLIC INPUT BEHIND HOOD CANAL BRIDGE CLOSURE UPDATES
>
>OLYMPIA - Based on the results of citizen questionnaires, an on-line survey
>and a telephone poll, the Washington State Department of Transportation
>revised its estimated dates for closing the State Route 104 Hood Canal
>Bridge in August.
>
>The current schedule now under review by the project contractor,
>Kiewit-General of Poulsbo, would close the bridge twice in August - one
>weekday closure and one weekend closure. The closure dates remain tentative
>until late June.
>
>The first closure would begin at 10 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 11 and end before 5
>a.m. Monday, Aug. 15. The second closure would begin at 10 p.m. Sunday, Aug.
>21 and end by 5 a.m. Thursday, Aug. 25.
>
>WSDOT - in cooperation with the Port Townsend Chamber of Commerce, the Port
>Angeles Chamber of Commerce and the Olympic Peninsula Joint Marketing Group
>-sought public input in April on preferred closure dates. The group
>published questionnaires, collected on-line surveys and used a
>400-respondent telephone survey. The results showed 49 percent of
>respondents preferred weekend closures, while 35 percent wanted a weekday
>closure. Washington State Ferries schedules, low tide warnings and regional
>festival schedules also were considered in selecting closure dates.
>
>The bridge closures are needed to replace each end of the bridge with a new
>roadway now under construction next to the existing roadway. During the
>closures the contractor will place the existing roadway on rollers, roll
>that existing roadway onto temporary supports, and roll the new wider
>roadway into place. Staging the work in this manner reduced the bridge
>closure time from about a year to just two three-day closures.
>
>A detailed explanation of the ongoing SR 104 Hood Canal Bridge East-half
>Replacement and West-half Retrofit project, as well as bridge closure tips,
>is available on-line at www.hoodcanalbridge.com. Information also is
>available at 1-877-595-HCB2.
>
>###
>
>Visit www.wsdot.wa.gov/traffic for weather and roadway information. Highway
>construction and maintenance updates are available on-line
>www.wsdot.wa.gov/regions/olympic/construction or by calling 5-1-1.
>
>Lloyd D. Brown
>Communication Manager
>WSDOT Olympic Region
>5720 Capitol Blvd.
>Tumwater, WA 98501
>
>(360) 357-2789 phone
>(360) 357-2601 fax
>(360) 789-9232 mobile
>
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Tim Caldwell
General Manager
Port Townsend Chamber of Commerce
tim at ptchamber.org
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