Day and nighttime construction activities continue in Hermiston along Highway 395 for the Oregon Department of Transportation’s $3.7 million highway improvement project.
Motorists and pedestrians can expect lane closures and minor detours around ADA sidewalk ramps. Most of the work will be performed at nighttime to minimize impacts to traffic and local businesses along the route.
Traffic impacts for the week of February 29 are as follows:
Dayshift
Monday: Jennie Avenue will be closed on the west side for trenching of conduits across roadway.
Tuesday–Thursday: Signal work at Jennie Avenue continues during dayshift with minimal traffic impacts, minor delays.
Nightshift
Monday night-Thursday 6 p.m. – 10 a.m.: Various lane closures from 4th Street–Theater Lane (up to four different small closures along the corridor). This is to accommodate ADA ramp replacement work.
Tuesday night: Lane closures on Jennie Avenue and U.S. 395 7 p.m.–10 a.m. for conduit trenching across roadway.
The construction project includes rebuilding dozens of ADA sidewalk ramps, updating traffic signal controls at several intersections, installing new traffic signals at the Jennie Avenue intersection, installing median curbs to control turning movements at the Elm Street (OR 207) intersection, and repaving the six-mile-long section of highway between S.E. Fourth Street (mile post 6) and U.S. 730 (mile post zero). Paving work is not expected to begin until the May time frame. All work is scheduled to be completed by July 4.
