Date:  Wednesday, April 15, 2009

Contact: Jerry Moore, Project Engineer, 360-565-0620
              Kelly Stowe, WSDOT Communications, 360-357-2716

PORT ANGELES – The numbers don’t lie: Avoiding highway work zones and traffic delays in Clallam County will be next to impossible over the next several months.

There are about 170 miles of state highway in the county – about 70 miles of which receive some type of safety improvement or roadway upgrade this spring and summer.
This week, WSDOT awarded contracts totaling almost $2.8 million for two safety improvement projects. These projects combine to support approximately 30 jobs. 

Peterson Brothers, Inc. of Sumner takes on the second stage of the SR 112, Makah Reservation to US 101 Safety project, which removes roadside hazards and installs features such as signing and guardrail that reduce the frequency and severity of run-off-the-road collisions.

Coral Construction Company of Sherwood, Ore., will install a stronger type of guardrail (called thrie-beam guardrail) and permanent signing on and approaching the Sol Duc River Bridge to improve safety for drivers on US 101.

In addition to these projects, the section of State Route 112 near the West Twin Rivers Bridge that was damaged in January by a land slide is slated to get a permanent fix this summer. The plan is to build a new roadway adjacent to the existing one and away from the slide zone, and have it ready for traffic in the fall.

Project information: http://www.wsdot.wa.gov/projects/sr112/stagetwosafety/
Weekly traffic impacts: http://www.wsdot.wa.gov/Regions/Olympic/Construction/

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