Hwy 169
Reconstruction project
Location
- Hwy 169 from County Road 26 to the Pike River Bridge
Schedule
- Sept. 4, 2012 to July 12, 2013
Cost
- $3,588,000
Traffic impacts
- Drilling and blasting work near Flaim Road will take place until early-December. Motorists should expect short, intermittent, full-closures not longer that 15 minutes and intermittent flagging operations when traffic is restricted to a single lane in construction and blasting areas.
- Most work on the project that could affect traffic has been completed until next spring.
What will be done
- Total reconstruction of 1.6 miles of Hwy 169
- The southernmost 800-feet of the project is completed.
Project layout
Improvements include
- Eight-foot-wide shoulders
- Turning lanes
- Flattened hills
- Straighter curves
- Improved ditching and drainage
Benefits
- Flattening hills and straightening curves on Hwy 169 improves passing safety.
- Wider shoulders provide motorists with safer pull-off areas and may help reduce the chance of run-off-the-road crashes.
- Flatter slopes along the edges of Hwy 169 will help reduce the severity of run-off-the-road crashes.