Date:  Friday, May 23, 2008

Contact: Rick Rodlend, WSDOT Project Supervisor, (360) 457-2575
              Jamie Swift, WSDOT Communications, (360) 357-2703

PORT ANGELES – Over the next four months, crews will install guardrail, flatten slopes and post new signs to improve safety on SR 112, a 62-mile route known as the Strait of Juan de Fuca Highway.

This $2.6 million project – aimed at reducing the number of run-off-the-road collisions – also improves drainage and installs flashing beacons to alert drivers to a sharp highway curve near Hoko-Ozette Road.

The work requires setting up traffic-controlled areas within the project limits: US 101 on the east and the Makah Reservation on the west. Drivers should expect delays.

Work begins Tuesday and the project is scheduled for completion in early October.

To stay up to date on the latest traffic impacts, check out the Olympic Region weekly construction report at www.wsdot.wa.gov/Regions/Olympic/Construction/.

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