Driving around the Fred Meyer in Salmon Creek will soon be a one-way affair.
Starting mid-May and lasting through August, Clark County Public Works officials will limit traffic on Northeast 10th Avenue from Tenney Road to 139th Street to one northbound lane. They will also limit traffic to two westbound lanes on Northeast 139th Street from 10th Avenue to the temporary traffic signal at Tenney Road.
The county expects the change to increase safety for both the general public and work crews from Rotschy Inc., which has an $11.6 million contract to build part of the new Salmon Creek interchange and related road improvements.
It should also trim four to six weeks from the construction timetable for improving 10th Avenue.
“We’re still going on that piping on 10th,” said Darin Kysar, the company’s project manager. “We’ll be going another week and then we’ll be on the edge of 139th.”
Rotschy’s roadwork will head east on 139th Street, but only as far as the eastern edge of what will be the new Salmon Creek Park & Ride. The Washington State Department of Transportation and its contractors will construct the actual road and freeway overpass between the parking lot and Northeast 20th Avenue.
Kysar said the curbs throughout most of the park & ride are in. In a few weeks, Rotschy will start laying test panels — samples of the permeable surface to be used in the new parking lot — to test their effectiveness at absorbing runoff. It will be at least a few weeks before the company starts paving the parking lot.
If the weather stays dry, Rotschy will also start excavating at 139th Street and 10th Avenue in a few days. It’s been tilling the soil to prepare it for the eventual excavation.
For more updates, check WSDOT’s project site at http://www.wsdot.wa.gov/projects/i5/ne134thi205/.
