Nighttime roadwork activities along a section of U.S. 730 (Columbia River Highway) will continue over the next several weeks, the Oregon Department of Transportation announced.
This and next week crews will be adding rumble strips and striping to newly laid asphalt between mile posts 186 and 192 (McNary to Diagonal Rd). Starting around June 12 sections of the highway between Southshore Drive and McNary will receive pavement upgrades. The paving work will extend from mile posts 180.6 to 182.2 (Southshore Drive to Powerline Road) and from mile posts 183 to 186 (Yerxa Ave to McNary). The paving operation will skip downtown Umatilla and the area around the U.S. 730/I-82 Interchange. Current activities are expected to be completed around mid-June, with pavement upgrades around the interchange constructed in September. Pavement upgrades in downtown Umatilla are scheduled to be completed under a separate contract in 2018.
The current construction work will primarily be performed at nighttime between 6 p.m. and 7 a.m. to reduce impacts to travelers. Motorists can expect lane closures, flaggers, possible pilot cars and delays of up to twenty minutes throughout the evening and early morning hours. Traffic fines are double the amount in all work zones and motorists are advised to drive with extra caution and please slow down.
This U.S. 730 project also included traffic signal upgrades, plus sidewalk and ADA ramp improvements that were completed earlier this spring. The I-82 and Brownelle Road signals were upgraded with new controllers and video detection to make them more efficient and reliable. About a dozen sidewalk ramps received ADA upgrades between River Road and Brownelle Road. The bulk of the $2.5 million project is expected to be completed around mid-June, with the I-82/US730 interchange area to be completed in late September.
