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Greetings!
With the busy Independence Day behind us, we want to provide
an update on the Kings Beach Commercial Core Improvement Project.
Q&D has completed the following improvements in the last
couple of weeks:
- Final highway striping has been added, including
lane stripes, bike lanes, yield bars and crosswalks.
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Salmon Avenue and Secline Street now have curbs, gutters and sidewalks.
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Three public parking lots are now striped and
fully open for use. These lots are the
Salmon Parking Lot, next to the post office; the Rainbow Parking Lot behind the
former carpenters union on Deer and Rainbow; and the Christmas Tree Parking Lot
along the south side of state Route 28 next to the log cabin.
Q&D is still completing punch list items, including
landscape maintenance and replacement of plants, but they are nearly done!
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At the west end of the project, night work for
underground storm drain work at the intersection of 28/267 is almost complete,
and will continue nightly for about another week, from 7 p.m. to 7 a.m. The
steel plates evident in this vicinity cover partially completed sections of the
storm drain system. Progress has been slowed slightly by old, abandoned
unmarked utilities. Temporary traffic control measures will be in place during
the work shift, and CHP will be onsite during nighttime operations.
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At the east end of the project, daytime underground
work on state Route 28 just west of Chipmunk continues to progress Monday
through Friday. Temporary traffic control measures are in place during the work
shift, closing shoulders and temporarily shifting traffic around the work area.
Signage is in place, detouring pedestrians to the side of the highway opposite
the work. Steel plates cover in progress work between shifts. Nighttime water
main relocation work at the intersection of Chipmunk and state Route 28 is
anticipated for this Tuesday and Wednesday, between 11 p.m. and 7 a.m.
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During the second week of July, lanes at both ends
of the project will be temporarily restriped into configurations that allow
curb, gutter and sidewalk work to proceed in a way that minimizes impacts to
traffic. At the west end of the project, traffic will be shifted to the south,
for curb/gutter/sidewalk work on the north side of state Route 28. At the east
end of the project, traffic will be shifted to the north for curb, gutter and sidewalk
work on the other side of 28.
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Work at the intersection of Route 28 and Chipmunk
(just north of 28) will continue over the next 3 weeks, as additional storm
drain work parallel to Chipmunk across the highway will begin today (11 July)
on the south side of 28 and then head north for several weeks. One lane of
traffic in each direction will continue to be open on 28 as it has been. The
project team anticipates that some isolated work activities on Chipmunk will
require closure of Chipmunk for short, limited durations during daytime working
hours.
Beginning Wednesday, July 6th, the contractor will
be performing paving grinding as follows:
- July 6 – 7: Beaver Street
- July 7 – 8: Fox Street (between Salmon and Dolly
Varden)
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July 8 – 11: Rainbow Avenue (between Secline and
Fox Street)
Overlay paving will begin on Monday, July 11 and
will follow this sequence:
- July 11 – 12: Beaver Street
- July 12 – 13: Fox Street
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July 13 – 14: Rainbow Street
Both paving and grinding are moving operations, so equipment won’t be
sitting in one single area for an extended length of time.
Placer County is taking a similar but slightly different
approach to construction restrictions along the highway for the two different
phases of the Commercial Core Improvement Project.
With the Core of the Core phase, where the installed improvements
were located as close to the business or property as they were, we chose to
restrict highway work during the July and August timeframe.
With the Gateway to the Core phase, however, we elected to
provide the contractor with a bit more flexibility and allow them to work
specific segments of the highway where their work should not cause significant
impacts. Work along the highway will
only be allowed if two lanes of traffic will be maintained at all times.
Download our map here to see work areas and schedule.
We are honored to announce that the American Public Works
Association has named the "Core of the Core" phase of the Kings Beach Commercial Core Improvement Project its
transportation Project of the Year in the $5 million but less than $25 million
category. Read more here.
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