MATC Matters

Here’s the planned work for the week of April 30, for East Washington Avenue (Second Street to Marquette Street):

Reconstruction of the outbound lanes continues including:

• Water Main construction from 6th Street to Milwaukee Street
• South 4th Street will be CLOSED on Monday morning April 30 thru Thursday May 3. Work on South 4th will include sanitary sewer, and storm sewer and grading.
• Storm Sewer construction from 3rd to 5th Street
• Sanitary Sewer construction from Johnson to the west
• Oak Street will be closed on Monday and Tuesday
• Storm sewer 6′ x 3′ box culvert from Marquette to Oak Street
• Bridge work for the roadway structure over Starkweather Creek, and for the new pedestrian structure
• Work by private utility companies

Here’s the planned work for the week of April 30, for East Washington Avenue (Thornton Avenue to Second Street)

Work is continuing on grading for the bike paths, and work on the retaining walls on the south side of the bridge

• Landscape plantings around the structure
• Prep work for staining the bridge
• Median lanes will be closed from Dickinson to 2nd Street and parking removed from these areas. The parking lane will become a travel lane to maintain three lanes of traffic in each direction.
• Work will begin in the median including: decorative concrete, planting beds and signing. Paving the bike paths along the river will begin.

Bus stops will be maintained in the construction zone, See Metro website or project website - “Metro Transit During Construction� for details.

There will be no parking on East Washington Avenue in the construction zone. Alternative Routes are I90/94 and the beltline. The field office phone is (608) 242-7305, fax is (608) 242-7317.The website will be updated: http://www.eastwashington.org/

Tom Riffle
Facilities Operations Manager