Pacific Avenue Paving - A Few More Details ( 1. November 2007, 14:52 by Whitney) ~ Ugh... Again?
So, do you remember that little story from several months ago about Pacific Avenue needing to be paved… again? Well, at this morning’s Downtown Merchant Group meeting we heard more details about the plan to repave Pacific Avenue between South 17th and South 25th. Apparently, when the Link was built the underlying soil in the streets abutting the tracks weren’t reinforced and now the street is failing.
The City has slated the construction to sandwich the Tall Ships Festival in July, with the South 17th to South 21st stretch starting in March and the South 21st to South 25th section being done after the festival. It hasn’t been decided if the work will be done at night or during the day. Each phase is expected to require 40 days worth of work to replace the top two feet of soil and pave the street with asphault.
More details should emerge early next year as we get closer to the start of the project.
Hang in there businesses, we won’t forget about you.
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Yes, some pavement patches have been placed on Pacific Avenue to help smooth out the road surface through the winter. But these patches are just temporary fixes.
2 | Posted by Rob McNair-Huff | Nov 1, 08:17 PM
I’d like to see some accommodation made for bikes during the “big repaving” of Pacific. Maybe at least some “sharrows” like those being painted on numerous Seattle streets recently. Given that this street fronts a growing university and is on the way to the Tacoma Dome transit station, bike use is only going to increase here. As is, the area is very poorly configured for cycling.
3 | Posted by michael g. | Nov 2, 09:48 AM
Asphalt, of course, because it lasts so long…. When is the city going to wake up to the long term benefits of biting the fiscal cost of installing concrete. Public works can’t maintain our current stock of asphalt streets why do we not demand more long term solutions even if the cost is greater?
4 | Posted by Patrick | Nov 2, 11:54 AM
Patrick raises an interesting point…I noticed recently that near some townhomes being built in my neighborhood, the builders ended up digging up the whole (concrete) road adjacent to the complex and replacing it with asphalt. I personally would be seriously p.o.‘d if the concrete in front of my house was torn out in favor of asphalt…
5 | Posted by jamie from thriceallamerican | Nov 2, 12:34 PM
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