Moving Ahead - April 2009

April 09 2009

• I-5 project on schedule, lanes to reopen in two weeks

  Motorists are welcoming the good news in south Medford: the six-week Interstate 5 rebuild project is on schedule to reopen all lanes before the end of April. The project began in mid-March, closing one lane of I-5 in each direction so construction crews could dig up the original concrete used when I-5 was built in the 1960s. “The road bed was either compacted soil or a thin layer of asphalt,” said ODOT Project Information Specialist Gary Leaming. “The concrete roadbed ...
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