{"id":1024,"date":"2013-08-30T16:42:18","date_gmt":"2013-08-30T23:42:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/?p=1024"},"modified":"2013-08-30T16:42:18","modified_gmt":"2013-08-30T23:42:18","slug":"road-resurfacing-project-impact-traffic-major-city-streets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/road-resurfacing-project-impact-traffic-major-city-streets\/","title":{"rendered":"Road Resurfacing Project to Impact Traffic on Major City Streets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An ongoing project to resurface several key sections of Yakima streets this year will impact traffic on sections of 16<sup>th<\/sup> Avenue, 40<sup>th<\/sup> Avenue, Walnut Street and Tieton Drive next week.<\/p>\n<p>Tieton Drive between 32<sup>nd<\/sup> Avenue to 40<sup>th<\/sup> Avenue will be closed overnight (8:00 pm to 6:00 am) to all through traffic, from Tuesday, September 3rd to Friday, September 6<sup>th<\/sup>. Curb lane closures will be in place during the day for concrete work.<\/p>\n<p>40<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0Avenue between Tieton Drive and Summitview Avenue will have lane restrictions in place overnight (8:00 pm to 6:00 am) from Tuesday, September 3<sup>rd<\/sup> to Friday, September 6<sup>th<\/sup> while utilities in the area are relocated.<\/p>\n<p>Work on Walnut Street between 1<sup>st<\/sup> Street and 6<sup>th<\/sup> Street and 16<sup>th<\/sup> Avenue from Englewood to River Road will have restricted travel lanes in place (8:00 pm to 6:00 am) for asphalt paving on\u00a0Wednesday, September 4<sup>th<\/sup> to Friday, September 6<sup>th<\/sup>.<\/p>\n<p>The City is spending $5 million dollars this year completing what\u2019s known as a \u201cgrind and overlay\u201d project in order to recondition roadway sections in different parts of Yakima.\u00a0 A grind and overlay project involves removing old and deteriorated asphalt and replacing it with new asphalt, which significantly improves the drivability and safety of the road surface.<\/p>\n<p>The majority of work being done on the grind and overlay project will take place overnight in order to reduce impact to traffic.<\/p>\n<p>While the grind and overlay work is underway, traffic delays in the project areas will occur.\u00a0 Drivers should use alternate routes if possible until the work is completed.<\/p>\n<p>Access to homes and businesses in the project areas will be maintained as best as possible and emergency vehicles will be allowed through the project areas if necessary.<\/p>\n<p>As always, the schedule for these types of projects is subject to change daily dependent on weather, equipment failure, and emergencies.<\/p>\n<p>For additional information regarding next week\u2019s grind and overlay project activity:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Contact:\u00a0 Senior Engineer Bob Desgrosellier \u2013 575-6228<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Communications &amp; Public Affairs Director Randy Beehler \u2013 901-1142<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/6\/files\/sites\/6\/Grind-and-Overlay-Update-News-Release-pdf.pdf\">Grind and Overlay Update &#8211; News Release pdf<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An ongoing project to resurface several key sections of Yakima streets this year will impact traffic on sections of 16th Avenue, 40th Avenue, Walnut Street and Tieton Drive next week. Tieton Drive between 32nd Avenue to 40th Avenue will be closed overnight (8:00 pm to 6:00 am) to all through traffic, from Tuesday, September 3rd<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1024","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1024","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1024"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1024\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1027,"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1024\/revisions\/1027"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}