Date:
Thursday, February 09, 2006
Contact:
Dustin Terpening, WSDOT Communications, (360) 757-5997 (Burlington)
Dave Crisman, Project Engineer, (360) 848-7103 (Mount Vernon)
GIG HARBOR - WSDOT and its contractor Peterson Brothers will start construction and lane closures on State Route 16 in Gig Harbor Thursday night. Crews will install new cable guardrail to help prevent crossover and head-on accidents.
Crews will spend two weeks installing three miles of new cable guardrail in the median of SR 16 between the Narrows Bridge and Burley-Olalla Road.
Nighttime Lane Closures
Crews are allowed to close the left lane of SR 16 in either direction from 7 p.m. to 4 a.m., Monday nights through Friday mornings, and from 11 p.m. Friday nights to 9 a.m. Saturday mornings.
WSDOT will install cable guardrail to help prevent head-on collisions caused by drivers crossing the median and entering oncoming traffic. Cable guardrail significantly reduces the number of fatal and disabling accidents.
This work, paid for with gas tax money from the 2005 Legislative Transportation Funding Package, is part of a larger $8.8 million project to install approximately 70 miles of cable guardrail in eight counties and on nine separate highways across Washington to help prevent crossover and head-on accidents.
For more details about this project and to see specifically where WSDOT is installing cable guardrail, visit www.wsdot.wa.gov/projects/cablebarrier.
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