News and Opinion from Sisters, Oregon
News and Opinion from Sisters, Oregon
Crews worked through the night on the eastern approaches to Sisters.
Work crews are making swift work of paving a new right-turn lane on Highway 20 at the east end of Sisters.
Working at night in chilly temperatures, paving crews have ground away existing pavement and laid fresh as the preliminary work on a major renovation of the highway through Sisters gets underway.
"They had to do a grind-out to match into existing pavement on that corner," said Oregon Department of Transportation Community Liaison Ann Fisher.
The new right-turn lane was paved overnight last Thursday-Friday, but "they're going to keep that closed until the permanent signing and striping go in," Fisher said.
That should happen this week.
A work crew was also paving Locust Street, which will be used as a route for westbound through truck traffic.
"There was additional prep work that was necessary due to the condition of the existing asphalt," Fisher said.
The work went smoothly, Fisher reported. There were traffic delays during the night, the longest being about 10 minutes, but nighttime traffic is light so the impact was small.
Fisher said she was concerned about the noise of grinding, but the crew used a new model of grinder, which lessened that impact.
"It's still loud, but the potential was there for it to be a lot louder," she said.
Fisher maintains an office at city hall and provides regular email updates on the project. Contact her at [email protected]
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