[E-updates] City infrastructure improvement projects for the week of December 23

[Lisa Patterson]

NEWS RELEASE    City of Lawrence, Kansas
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
December 19, 2002
CONTACT:  Lisa Patterson, communications coordinator, (785) 832-3406

City infrastructure improvement projects

(LAWRENCE, KS) -Ousdahl Rd. will reopen from 31st St. to 33rd St. on Friday,
Dec. 20, weather permitting.  Work to accommodate widening of the road
should be completed on Friday and will allow traffic to travel from 31st St.
to 33rd St. on Ousdahl Rd.

Contractors will be repairing the sidewalk on the east side of Tennessee in
the 1400 block.  Work will reduce traffic to one lane during the workday.

On going City infrastructure improvement projects for the week of December
23 include:

Storm sewer improvements
21st St., closed, Stewart Ave to east of Naismith, completed approximately
May 2003, weather permitting

19th Terr., 20th St. and 20th Terr., open to local traffic, periodical
closure during workday

Ousdahl, 19th St to 21st St, closed to through traffic

Water line installation
Intersection of 9th and Iowa, traffic interruptions, completed approximately
Dec. 31, weather permitting

W 5th St., California St. west to 1924 W 5th, completed approximately Dec.
27, weather permitting, project substantially completed and finish work
underway

Road improvements
31st St., Ousdahl Rd. to Iowa St., traffic reduced to one lane each
direction

Ousdahl Rd, 31st St. to 33rd St., reopening Dec. 20, weather permitting

North Michigan, no through traffic north of the Woodcreek Town homes
entrance to Riverridge Road, completed approximately summer of 2003, weather
permitting

Recreational Path Repair
Clinton Parkway, completed

Sidewalk Repair
Tennessee, 1400 block east side, reduced to one lane of traffic during work
day, completed approximately Dec. 27, weather permitting

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Lisa K. Patterson
Communications Coordinator
City of Lawrence
PO Box 708
Lawrence, KS 66044
(785) 832-3406
fax (785) 832-3405
lpatterson@ci.lawrence.ks.us
http://www.lawrenceks.org