10 miles of roads in Shoreline to be resurfaced this summer
Wednesday, July 8, 2015
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| Shoreline road crews patch a damaged section of roadway Photo by Steven H. Robinson |
Expect to see a lot more scenes like this in Shoreline this summer as the City's public works department plans to resurface streets in six neighborhoods.
2015 Pavement Preservation Project: Public Works Department will be re-surfacing 10.1 miles of Arterial and Residential streets with a Bituminous Surface Treatment (BST). This work will be happening in the following neighborhoods: Ridgecrest, North City, Briarcrest, Parkwood, Richmond Highlands, and Highland Terrace.
Construction is scheduled to start the middle of July and be completed by end of August. Here are maps of the specific streets being treated.
The Echo Lake neighborhood was the first neighborhood to have the new BST (or chip seal) in 2011 when eight miles of roads were resurfaced.
Generally, the biggest problem faced during the BST application process was access to driveways and the presence of loose aggregate to several days after the application. Fortunately, due to the fact that roads with BST can be driven on within five minutes, any delay to access driveways was very minimal. The City will use the information and comments collected from residents to make improvements for before next year’s application.
Residents also advised that it was not a good idea to walk dogs on the new surface for several weeks, as the dogs were picking up the chip seal in their paws.
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2 comments:
And out of sight, out of mind, is the 10-block Meridian Ave N overlay project, conveniently located just outside the western edge of the 185th Subarea Rezone (and coincidentally underneath the legend box in the City's resurface map). This is a grant the City applied for long before the Rezone had been decided. What a shame it would have been to dig up that work when the backhoes arrive.
@12:48 - You've got something there. The City has that stretch of Meridian Ave N. designated as a truck route, bus route, bicycle path, and pedestrian path. It is a main drag in Shoreline (which is why it qualifies for the grant in the first place). Yet it was miraculously spared from the blades of the radical rezone. Why?
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