Angoon orders communitywide testing with 8 cases confirmed<\/a>] <\/ins><\/p>\nWith the lack of buses, DOT decided to attack both roundabouts in addition to the Egan Drive project simultaneously to minimize the time it would take to restore traffic to the new normal.<\/p>\n
“Because there’s so little traffic this year, we thought, go for it, rip the Band-Aid off,” Wilkins said. “We had work going on three places at the same time, which we normally would not have been ambitious enough to.”<\/p>\n
Some of the work remaining until next year includes resurfacing the Gold Creek Bridge, Wilkins said. Specialists from out of town are required for that brand of work, and quarantine regulations make it more practical to push it to next year, Wilkins said.<\/p>\n
“We have to remove the bridge in a special way with a special machine,” Wilkins said. “We will do that next year. Bottom line, it’ll be fairly quick, about two to three weeks.”<\/p>\n
With that out of the way, there are mostly only minor details to iron out for all of the work sites, Wilkins said.<\/p>\n
“It’ll be little things that will not be noticeable to most motorists,” Wilkins said. “Permanent paint. The maintenance folks prefer to use a much higher quality paint which doesn’t require reapplication every year, but is more complicated to put down. “<\/p>\n
Big things coming<\/p>\n
There are a number of projects on the horizon that will improve the roads around Juneau as well, said Sam Dapcevich, DOT spokesperson.<\/p>\n
“The road past city hall towards Thane in crappy shape,” Wilkins said. “It is on there, but it’s a few years out. So we’re going to do a preventative maintenance plan. It’ll be really good. It’s not just patching potholes. We’re gonna take it from city hall to the tram.”<\/p>\n
That stretch of road could be particularly inconvenient, especially in tourist season, but it needs to be done during the winter when the weather permits efficient road construction.<\/p>\n
“That work, because it’s a heavily traveled corridor that doesn’t have a detour, will most likely have to be at night,” Wilkins said.”We’re hoping to get on it early in the season before tourist season gets up in high gear.”<\/p>\n
Work is also lined up for repaving the roundabout coming off the Douglas Bridge, as well as wear and tear near the metal joints in the bridge itself, which promises to be a difficult evolution, Wilkins said. Happily, the bridge itself, which was recently involved, is in good condition.<\/p>\n
“There was just surface damage, nothing structural,” Dapcevich said. “They crawled through the inside of the bridge. It was pretty minor. When you saw the video, it looks dramatic, but when they examined the bridge, it was pretty superficial.”<\/p>\n
There’s also scheduled to be a roundabout installed at the intersection of Glacier Highway and Renninger Street, and a traffic light installed at the intersection of Davis Street. A sidewalk will also be installed on Glacier Avenue on the side currently lacking one.<\/p>\n
“We will add a traffic signal at Davis Avenue. It can be dodgy at certain times of day,” Wilkins said. “We also have projects coming up in Ketchikan, Prince of Wales and Sitka next year.”<\/p>\n
DOT also recently shored up an embankment on Douglas Highway that was badly eroded in last year’s mudslides, Dapcevich said, adding 339 tons of stone to reinforce the hillside.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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