Equipment has been parked on Washington Street this weekend, ready for the major repaving project that starts Monday.
In case you missed the memo, get ready for construction to start on Monday (Sept. 9) on a downtown section of Washington Street in Albany.
Albany Public Works posted a notice of the construction start on Instagram last week.
In May, the city council awarded a contract to Pacific Excavation, of Eugene, to repave Washington Street from First Avenue to Pacific Boulevard, a distance of 13 and a half blocks. The company’s bid, the lowest of six, was just above $3.5 million.
The job includes water line replacements and sidewalk repairs on Washington, as well as water line replacements on Calapooia and Ferry streets.
The city says the contractor will work on sections of three to four blocks at a time, starting Monday on the section of Washington from Second Avenue to Fifth.
The entire job will probably take about a year. It has to be done by Aug. 29, 2025.
Also this week, RiverBend Construction, also of Eugene, will start work on a $1,968,000 project to fix the pavement — by a process called “grind and inlay” — on three streets around the Heritage Mall.
That work — on sections of Geary, Clay and 14th — will be be done at night in order to maintain access to all the businesses in Albany’s major shopping area. The completion deadline is Nov. 1.
No more dodging potholes on Clay Street on the way to Fred Meyer or Bi-Mart — something to look forward to when this project is done. (hh)
Well, contrary to the announcement, construction did not start on Monday, Sept. 9. When will it actually start? We’ll have to wait and see.Â
How in the heck do we get to the Post Office during the year that they are redoing the feeder street (Washington) to their Monteith kiddie park? I guess I will just have to wait and see.
May I ask why they are starting on 2nd and Washington instead of 1st and Washington?
It is going to be confusing enough through the first 3 or 4 blocks. Why not start at first instead of having to come back and cause more confusion?
I imagine they are starting construction on 2nd because people have to have a way to get to the Carousel and the Monteith Kiddie Park, or the economy of downtown Albany will collapse!! Oh, and people have to have a way to get to the Post Office, but that is not the main concern of Albany officials. But it concerns me, so now I think I know what I have to do to get to the Post Office when Washington St. is under construction.
After thinking more about this….sure, I can get to the Post Office by heading toward it on First Street which is one-way Southwest (sort of), and then pull into the Post Office parking lot. But, a person can’t get back out of the parking lot because of that stupid portion of 2nd adjacent to the Post Office that is one-way East. Gawd! That was soo stupid when the City made that street one-way for one block. There is absolutely no way to re-pave 2nd Street and Washington and get out of the Post Office parking lot….unless they reverse that one block of one-way traffic on 2nd for a year when the road construction will be completed..