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| Paving to continue Monday |
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| ODOT maintenance crews are nearly finished with 2.5-mile improvements on Hwy 126 |
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By Kevin Gaboury
Oregon Department of Transportation maintenance crews were hard at work earlier this week repaving an approximately 2.5-mile stretch of Highway 126 just outside of Prineville.
According to ODOT Spokesperson Rex Holloway, drivers should expect single-lane closures and up to 20-minute traffic delays on Monday as the final paving is wrapped up.
The cost of the project was around $200,000 and Holloway said ODOT had some additional year-end funding available in the maintenance budget for a number of regional projects.
"It provided us the opportunity to do additional maintenance," he said. "We have to be very careful about not overspending accounts so as we get close to the end of the year and we start tightening up those figures, we can figure out how much money there is to do some work."
The road work began on Tuesday and lasted through Thursday, Holloway said, and crews will take a break over the weekend and finish up Monday. The project involves repaving the stretch of highway with a new 1.5-inch asphalt overlay, which will produce a smoother ride for motorists.
"It was definitely in need of some resurfacing, and it was in an area that we could get the work done by the end of the time frame that we had," Holloway said. The work must be completed by Tuesday, the end of the biennium.
Holloway mentioned that ODOT has a cooperative agreement with the Crook County Road Department and along with the ODOT maintenance crew from Prineville, a county road department crew assisted with the work.
"Later on in the year, we will probably be helping them with one of their projects," he said. "It's a good use of taxpayer dollars to be able to help each other out because we more than likely would not have been able to get as much work done without having those other resources available." |
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