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Buskirk Widening Starting Next Week

Construction on the Buskirk Avenue Widening Project in Pleasant Hill is scheduled to begin next week, May 20, 2013.  

What is it?

Buskirk-Avenue-Widening-2The project is to imrpove, reconstruct and widen Buskirk Avenue in Pleasant Hill, CA. In addition, drainage improvements, new pedestrian and bike facilities, new pavement and striping will be added to the Avenue.
Read more more on our blog post covering the Buskirk Avenue Project or the Stage 1 Notification PDF.

What are the construction impacts?

  • Typical construction hours will be from 8:00 am – 5:00 pm Monday-Friday.
  • Some variations including night and weekend work will occur.
  • The curved part of Buskirk along the southernmost side of the shopping center will be closed from Elmira Lane to Hookston Road.
  • Traffic will be detoured along the dogleg section of Elmira and Hookston. Buskirk will remain open to two-way traffic north of Elmira.

Buskirk_Avenue_Stage_1_Construction_Map
For more information including the purpose of the work read the Buskirk Ave- Stage 1 Notification.

Closure Starting Friday, August 27

Caltrans will close the connector between westbound Route 24 and Northbound Highway 13 beginning at 5PM on Friday, August 27 until Monday, August 30 at 5AM. Traffic seeking northbound Hwy 13 will be detoured onto the Caldecott Lane off-ramp. Signs will guide motorists to northbound Hwy 13.
Source:
Caldecott-tunnel.org