{"id":166,"date":"2012-12-17T10:42:31","date_gmt":"2012-12-17T18:42:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/?p=166"},"modified":"2013-03-12T10:43:16","modified_gmt":"2013-03-12T17:43:16","slug":"section-of-a-street-now-open-to-two-way-traffic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/section-of-a-street-now-open-to-two-way-traffic\/","title":{"rendered":"Section of &#8220;A&#8221; Street Now Open to Two-Way Traffic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Contact:<\/strong> Streets and Traffic Operations Manager Joe Rosenlund \u2013 575-6005<br \/>\nCommunity Relations Manager Randy Beehler \u2013 901-1142 \u2013 <a href=\"mailto:randy.beehler@yakimawa.gov\">randy.beehler@yakimawa.gov<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Release Date:<\/strong> December 17th, 2012<\/p>\n<p>After having been a one-way, westbound road for many years, a short section of &#8220;A&#8221; Street in Downtown Yakima is now open to two-way traffic.<\/p>\n<p>City of Yakima crews recently adjusted traffic signal configurations in order to open the section of \u201cA\u201d Street between North 1<sup>st<\/sup> Street and North Front Street to both eastbound and westbound traffic.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ve opened that one-block section of \u2018A\u2019 Street to two-way traffic to ensure easy access to businesses on North Front Street is maintained during the upcoming MLK, Jr. Boulevard underpass project,\u201d said Yakima Streets and Traffic Operations Manager Joe Rosenlund<\/p>\n<p>Construction of the MLK, Jr. Blvd. underpass is expected to begin in late January.\u00a0 Throughout the underpass project, which will likely take about a year and a half to complete, MLK, Jr. Blvd. between 1<sup>st<\/sup> Street and 1<sup>st<\/sup> Avenue will be closed to all traffic.\u00a0 North Front Street will also be closed between \u201cA\u201d Street and the Lincoln Avenue underpass bridge.<\/p>\n<p>For additional information regarding current and planned street and traffic projects, contact the City of Yakima Streets Division by phone (575-6005) or by e-mail (<a href=\"mailto:traffic@yakimawa.gov\">traffic@yakimawa.gov<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/6\/files\/sites\/6\/A-Street-Becoming-Two-Way-12-17-12.pdf\">A Street Becoming Two Way (pdf)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Contact: Streets and Traffic Operations Manager Joe Rosenlund \u2013 575-6005 Community Relations Manager Randy Beehler \u2013 901-1142 \u2013 randy.beehler@yakimawa.gov Release Date: December 17th, 2012 After having been a one-way, westbound road for many years, a short section of &#8220;A&#8221; Street in Downtown Yakima is now open to two-way traffic. City of Yakima crews recently adjusted<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166","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\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=166"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":169,"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166\/revisions\/169"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}