Road work stops for holiday season

Nighttime preliminary roadwork by Knife River on the Cascade Avenue improvement project has been going great guns in recent weeks.

At the east end of Sisters, work is complete with new pavement, signs, permanent markings, curbs, and a new right-turn lane onto Locust Street.

According to Oregon Department of Transportation community Liaison Ann Fisher, the majority of drywells along side streets and on Cascade Avenue have been installed; a temporary alternative route for freight traffic on Barclay Drive is complete; and the majority of sedimentation manholes along side streets and on Cascade are done.

Some of the piping for the manholes that cross Cascade is complete.

That'll be it for a while.

"As requested by the community there will be no construction work going on from now (November 15, 2013) till after the first of the new year ( January 2, 2014) so as not to disrupt the holiday shopping season," Fisher reported. "March 1 we will be closing three blocks of Highway 20/Cascade Avenue to vehicle traffic. The road will be closed 24/7 to all vehicle traffic. The freight traffic will take the temporary reroute onto Barclay and the vehicle traffic will be routed onto Hood and Main. Pedestrian traffic will be open to all the businesses and there will be a street map and extra signage to support that effort."

Fisher noted that a contract has been awarded for a temporary signal installation at the west end of Sisters at Barclay for the temporary alternative route for freight.