{"id":10949,"date":"2021-08-18T14:31:24","date_gmt":"2021-08-18T21:31:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/?p=10949"},"modified":"2021-08-18T14:41:11","modified_gmt":"2021-08-18T21:41:11","slug":"project-requires-lane-closures-on-north-1st-street","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/project-requires-lane-closures-on-north-1st-street\/","title":{"rendered":"Project Requires Lane Closures on North 1st Street"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The southbound lanes of North 1st<\/sup> Street will be closed to traffic beginning tomorrow, Thursday, August 19th<\/sup>, as part of Phase 2 of the North 1st<\/sup> Street revitalization project.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The closure will be in place in the project area between I Street and N Street. On Thursday, crews will begin removing the old concrete road, curb, gutters and sidewalks on the southbound lanes in preparation for a new road surface and paving.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is anticipated the southbound lane closures on North 1st<\/sup> Street will continue through October.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Phase 2 of the North 1st<\/sup> Street revitalization project is expected to be complete in November.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The speed limit for local traffic through the work area is 20 miles per hour.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As always, schedules for these types of projects are subject to change daily dependent on weather, equipment failure, and emergencies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The North 1st<\/sup> Street Revitalization Project is intended to improve safety for drivers and pedestrians and increase the economic development potential of the North 1st<\/sup> Street corridor, one of the main entrances to the city.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Total Site Services of Richland is the general contractor for Phase 2, which began construction in April. The cost for Phase 2 is about $2.6 million, $665,000 below the engineer\u2019s estimate of the project.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Phase 2 will be paid for through a combination of water and stormwater funds, as well as Transportation Benefit District (TBD) funds from a $20 annual car tab fee adopted by the Yakima City Council during its 2018 budget process.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Phase 1 of the North 1st Street Revitalization Project was completed in December 2019. It included improvements between Highway 12 to the north and N Street to the south. It cost about $3.3 million and funded mostly with federal and state funds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The timeframe for Phase 3, which would provide improvements from J Street to Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard, is dependent on funding. The City continues to seek state and federal funds for Phase 3, which has an estimated cost of $12 million.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For additional information about these projects, contact Construction Supervisor Bruce Floyd at 575-6138.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

North 1st Street Lane Closures – News Release<\/a>Download<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The southbound lanes of North 1st Street will be closed to traffic beginning tomorrow, Thursday, August 19th, as part of Phase 2 of the North 1st Street revitalization project. The closure will be in place in the project area between I Street and N Street. On Thursday, crews will begin removing the old concrete road,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":10668,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10949","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10949","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=10949"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10949\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10990,"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10949\/revisions\/10990"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10668"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}