{"id":293,"date":"2012-05-08T13:44:19","date_gmt":"2012-05-08T20:44:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/?p=293"},"modified":"2013-03-12T13:45:09","modified_gmt":"2013-03-12T20:45:09","slug":"lincoln-avenue-underpass-open-to-traffic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/lincoln-avenue-underpass-open-to-traffic\/","title":{"rendered":"Lincoln Avenue Underpass Open to Traffic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Contact:<\/strong> Interim City Manager Micheal Morales \u2013 509-575-6040 \u2013 <a href=\"mailto:mmorales@ci.yakima.wa.us\">mmorales@ci.yakima.wa.us<\/a><br \/>\nCommunity Relations Manager Randy Beehler \u2013 509-901-1142 \u2013 <a href=\"mailto:rbeehler@ci.yakima.wa.us\">rbeehler@ci.yakima.wa.us<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Release Date:<\/strong> May 8th, 2012<\/p>\n<p>While some work still remains to be completed on the Lincoln Avenue underpass, the roadway that now passes beneath BNSF railroad tracks was opened to traffic earlier today.\u00a0 A dedication ceremony for the new underpass, which will include officials from various state and federal agencies that provided funding for the project, will take place later this month.<\/p>\n<p>Planning for the Lincoln Avenue underpass, along with a companion underpass on MLK, Jr. Boulevard, began more than a decade ago.\u00a0 The official groundbreaking for the Lincoln Avenue underpass took place in June of 2010.\u00a0 The City is still in the process of securing all of the funding necessary for the MLK, Jr. Boulevard underpass.\u00a0 No projected timeline for construction of the MLK, Jr. Boulevard underpass has been established.<\/p>\n<p>While construction on the Lincoln Avenue underpass was underway, the roadway was closed between 1<sup>st<\/sup> Street and 1<sup>st<\/sup> Avenue.\u00a0 MLK, Jr. Boulevard was restriped from a 3-lane, one-way street to a 4-lane, two-way street between 1<sup>st<\/sup> Street and 3<sup>rd<\/sup> Avenue in order to accommodate traffic that was rerouted around the Lincoln Avenue underpass construction area.<\/p>\n<p>Over the next few days, the current westbound lanes of MLK, Jr. Boulevard will be closed and restriped.\u00a0 During the restriping, MLK, Jr. Boulevard\u2019s two eastbound lanes will remain open.\u00a0 Eventually, MLK, Jr. Boulevard will once again become a 3-lane, one-way street carrying traffic eastbound.<\/p>\n<p>The dedication ceremony for the Lincoln Avenue underpass is scheduled to take place on Thursday, May 24<sup>th<\/sup> at 11:15am.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/6\/files\/sites\/6\/Lincoln-Ave-Underpass-Dedication1.pdf\">Lincoln Avenue Underpass Open to Traffic (pdf)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Contact: Interim City Manager Micheal Morales \u2013 509-575-6040 \u2013 mmorales@ci.yakima.wa.us Community Relations Manager Randy Beehler \u2013 509-901-1142 \u2013 rbeehler@ci.yakima.wa.us Release Date: May 8th, 2012 While some work still remains to be completed on the Lincoln Avenue underpass, the roadway that now passes beneath BNSF railroad tracks was opened to traffic earlier today.\u00a0 A dedication ceremony<\/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-293","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293","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=293"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":295,"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293\/revisions\/295"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}