Date:
Wednesday, February 15, 2006
Contact:
Dave Chesson, WSDOT Communications, (360) 757-5970 (Burlington)
Dave Crisman, Project Engineer, (360) 848-7103(Mount Vernon)
WHIDBEY ISLAND – WSDOT awarded G.G. Excavation Inc. of Anacortes the contract to improve safety along State Route 20 north of Oak Harbor, between Troxell Road and Cornet Bay Road. Crews have already started moving utilities away from the roadway to make room for this project. Drivers can expect occasional lane shifts during daylight hours Monday through Friday for the next month.
Construction will start this spring and be completed by fall of this year. The $9.2 million project will help improve safety and relieve congestion for the 16,000 drivers that use SR 20 every day. As part of this project we will:
- Widen the existing lanes from 11 to 12 feet, and increase the width of the shoulders to eight feet,
- Close Old Cornet Bay Road and improve the Cornet Bay Road intersection,
- Build new turn lanes in multiple locations, including left turn lanes in both directions of SR 20 at the intersections of Deception Circle and Ducken Road,
- Install a bus pullout at the northeast corner of Ducken Road and SR 20,
- Build storm water treatment facilities to help improve water quality.
This project is part of a larger effort to improve safety along the SR 20 corridor on Whidbey Island between Coupeville and Deception Pass. It is one of seven projects and $34 million that we have lined up for SR 20 between now and 2008. This project, along with two others currently underway on Whidbey Island, will be completed by this fall.
For more specific information about this project, visit www.wsdot.wa.gov/Projects/SR20/TroxellToCornetBay/. From this site you connect to more information about other planned projects for SR 20.
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