MADRAS, Ore.-Traffic on U.S. 26 at the temporary railroad bridge north of Madras will be reduced to one lane on Friday, Jan. 13, from 7 p.m. to 5 a.m. as crews complete the approaches to the new southbound Burlington Northern Santa Fe railroad overpass bridge. Flaggers will control alternating one-way traffic. . Work is weather permitting.

Both directions of U.S. 97 traffic will switch to the southbound lanes of the new bridge after the new paving is striped. After the traffic switch, Oregon Department of Transportation contractor Wildish Standard Paving will remove the temporary bridge and start building the northbound lanes of the new bridge. Construction work is scheduled Monday through Friday, 7 a.m. to 4 p.m., with occasional night and weekend work.

About the BNSF Madras bridge replacement:

Crews are removing the old three-lane BNSF railroad overcrossing bridge on U.S. 26 just north of Madras and building a new four-lane span in stages. The bridge work is scheduled to be finished in March. This project is part of a $30.5 million ODOT contract awarded to Wildish Standard Paving to replace 11 bridges on U.S. 26, U.S. 97 and Oregon 224.

This entry was posted on Thursday, January 12th, 2006 at 8:38 am and is filed under Oregon Press Releases. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.