City of Grand Junction Projects with Travel Restrictions

2017 Street Resurfacing Project

Asphalt patching (daylight hours):  Monday – Friday: Grand Avenue from 7^th Street to 12^th Street

Shoulder widening (daylight hours): Monday – Friday: 26 Road from F ¼ Road to F ½ Road

• Expect traffic shifts, intermittent lane closures and possible short-term street closures
• Flaggers will be on site to assist motorists
• Expect delays

Riverside Parkway Resurfacing Project

Week 1 Schedule: Sunday 7/16 – Sunday 7/23 (nighttime hours 5 pm – 7 am)

Asphalt milling and paving: Riverside Parkway from 5^th Street to 29 Road

• Expect traffic shifts, intermittent lane closures and possible short-term street closures
• Flaggers will be on site to assist motorists
• Expect delays

Pavement Preservation Treatment Project (Slurry Seal)

This week’s schedule (daylight hours):  29 Road from D Road to Patterson Road (two-way traffic will be maintained); D ½ Road from 3085 D ½ Road to Duffy Drive (two-way traffic will be maintained); 30 Road from A ½ Road to B Road (This section will be closed the day of application)

• Expect delays

2017 Street Chip Seal Program

City crews will be chip sealing streets Sunday – Wednesday during the daytime hours of 6am to 5pm.

The City streets in this year’s chip sealing program are between 1^st Street and 19^th Street and between North Avenue and Patterson Road.

City Crews will be fog sealing streets Monday – Thursday during the nighttime hours of 8pm to 6am.

Streets fog sealed this week will be the streets that were chip sealed last week.

• Residential and business access will be maintained at all times
• Traffic delays may occur as a result of this project
• Anticipated completion –  August 2017.

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Non-City of Grand Junction Projects with Travel Restrictions

Colorado National Monument – National Park Service Project

Repairs to the rock guard walls along Rim Rock Drive at various locations throughout the Colorado National Monument

• There will be alternating one-lane traffic through the construction zones, weekdays between the hours of 7 am and 4 pm
• Expect up to 10-minute delays – flaggers will be onsite to assist motorists
• Anticipated completion- July 2017.

I-70 Beavertail Tunnel Lighting Project (east of Palisade) – CDOT Project

• Speed limit reduction throughout construction zone is set at 35 mph
• Eastbound I-70 traffic will be detoured onto service road. No vehicle parking or bicycling on the service road.
• Both west and eastbound traffic can expect single lane closures
• Project hours will be weekdays 7am – 5pm
• For more information, please call (970) 456-1481
• Anticipated completion – November 2017.

Utility Pole Replacement Project, (Orchard Avenue from 12^th Street to 28 Road) – Xcel Energy

• Intermittent lane shifts or closures during normal work hours
• Short delays can be expected
• Anticipated completion – July 2017.

B ½ Road Utility Work between 29 and 30 Road – Private Development

• B ½ Road will be closed to thru traffic just east of 29 Road
• Detour route will be in place
• Most of B ½ Road can be accessed from 30 Road
• Anticipated completion – Friday July 21.

Contact:  Sam Rainguet, Communications Manager       970-244-1507 or samr@gjcity.org