Lund Avenue partly done. What’s next?
June 10th, 2009 by travis bakerThe in basket: Kitsap County paid prompt attention this spring to the condition of Lund Avenue between Bethel and Sidney avenues in South Kitsap, the subject of reader complaints about the lack of visible striping to delineate traffic lanes. They put a new grinding machine to work there recessing the reflective lane markers to lessen recurrence of the past winter’s loss of the markers to snow plow blades and other winter travel operations. They also applied new stripes.
But they didn’t recess the markers on the bridge across the Blackjack Creek canyon and stopped all work at the city limits, which are well short of Sidney Avenue.
I asked the county and city what the future holds.
The out basket: Jeff Shea, Kitsap County’s traffic engineer, said “We are evaluating the possibility of grindouts on the bridge. We have to check the depth of the asphalt on the bridge deck to be sure there is sufficient depth for the work without causing damage to the rebar or some other part of the structure.”
The county does Port Orchard’s striping, says the city’s public works director Mark Dorsey, and conversations have just begun about when county crews will continue the restriping west of where it stopped at the city limits. The city pays the county for that work.
Mark said he expects the county to propose use of the recessed reflectors along that city stretch, and he will wait to see what that would cost and whether it fits into his budget.
Tags: Blackjack, Lund Avenue, recessed, striping
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