Travel Advisories
ALERT! - One-year countdown to Hood Canal Bridge closure starts ... now
JEFFERSON/KITSAP COUNTIES - The one-year countdown to the May-June 2009
closure of the Hood Canal Bridge starts today.
Are you ready? Have you considered how the bridge closure will affect
you, how you'll get where you need to go, or how long it will take to
get there? If not, there's still time: You have 8,760 hours or 525,600
minutes or 31.5 million seconds.
The six-week closure will affect thousands of residents and visitors in
the Olympic and Kitsap peninsulas, and as a result, WSDOT's Hood Canal
Bridge Project Team will be using these precious moments ramping up
efforts to get the public ready for the construction project.
Through October, the team will staff information booths at events
throughout the Olympic and Kitsap peninsulas to inform residents about
the project's construction progress and closure mitigation plan. The
events will allow WSDOT to reach an even broader audience as it
discusses everything from pontoon work to a water shuttle across Hood
Canal, transit additions, medical bus services and ridesharing
opportunities.
"This is a great opportunity to talk with the people this project
serves," said Theresa Gren, Hood Canal Bridge Project Communications
Manager. "Attending these events will allow residents to chat one-on-one
with project representatives. We're very excited about that."
Team members, who will attend 11 community events in Jefferson, Clallam,
Mason and Kitsap counties, will kick off the closure outreach effort May
16-18 at Viking Fest in Poulsbo and finish Oct. 11-12 at the Dungeness
Crab Festival in Port Angeles.
The Hood Canal Bridge retrofit and replacement project will improve the
existing structure, making it wider, safer and more reliable. The bridge
will close for six weeks during May-June 2009 to allow WSDOT and
contractors from Kiewit-General to remove and replace its eastern half. |
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