Weekly Construction Update
Updated September 15, 2014
Utility Work
Excavation will continue during daytime hours (7:00am to 3:30pm) for utility work (power, lighting, and communications) on the west side of Aurora in the vicinity of N 199th Street to N 205th Street, including those streets.
Roadway Work
Storm drain work, resulting in trenching and installation of new manholes or inlets, and the construction of new curbs, gutters, and sidewalks is in progress. Southbound Aurora may be restricted to one lane during the daytime non-commute hours to perform any of the work above.
Detour route for temporary closure of 200th Street
Road Closure
The contractor will close N 200th Street (more details) from Whitman Avenue to Aurora from September 22 to October 10 for utility work, road excavation, and grading. Local access will be maintained. Detours will be signed to Fremont Avenue and N 185th Street. There will also be access to Aurora from Fremont Avenue at N 198th Street.
2014 Activities
Activities on the west side of Aurora that will continue through most of this year include asphalt pavement removal, excavation, utility work, curbs, gutters, sidewalks, retaining walls, and paving.The City of Shoreline thanks you for your patience as construction progresses along Aurora Avenue.
Questions during construction?
- 24-hour project hotline: (206) 801-2485
- Project email
Oh this is just great. It's bad enough that you've taken away the two way turn access from the south; you can't make a U-turn at 198th (though you can on the rest of Aurora back to 155th), and now you can't get to Aurora from 200th either? Do you really want the businesses to go under? Grinders and Bucky's are barely scraping by with the incredible lack of support. Between heavy machinery parked out front, worker cars in the parking lot (which means that patrons have no place to park) and a portapotty out in front of the restaurant, neither place looks open. Add to that VERY poor signage, and we're talking about a disaster for business in the Aurora corridor. No businesses, no tax revenue for Shoreline. And to ask the businesses to pony up money for extra signage, when Shoreline SHOULD be bending over backwards to help them through it is simply shameful.
ReplyDeleteBusinesses should receive compensation for loss of revenue during this extended period of road maintenance. City or county workers should not park in business parking lots.
ReplyDeleteThis are has been torn up for months and now you say it will be longer? This is extremely poor planning. The City of Shoreline needs to restore access to Bucky's, Grinders and other affected businesses and should compensate them for lost revenue, as well.
ReplyDeleteIt appears that the above map is the updated one. I found it not via a search (which it should come up from) nor on the first page of the city's website (which it should appear on), but from a blanket email that the city sends to interested parties. The above map had "updated February 10, 2015" on it.
ReplyDeleteI agree, the businesses should receive compensation, for I can imagine that once folks realize the resulting congestion, they'll head elsewhere.