City of Lakewood announcement.
Phase 1 Construction
Gas, power and water main utilities have relocated. Crews have installed the curbs and sidewalk around the Gravelly Lake Drive and Washington Boulevard roundabout. Communication relocation is ongoing. There are still five communication poles in the way at the Washington/Interlaaken intersection, one pole at the Washington/Gravelly intersection, one pole at the Veterans/Gravelly intersection and four poles along Gravelly south of Nyanza which are inhibiting the completion of the work. One of the five lines on the poles at the Gravelly/Nyanza end of the project was relocated Friday. Four more communication companies need to relocate there prior to the contractor being able to perform any more work. One of which requires the communication company to cut across Gravelly Lake Drive. Traffic between Pacific Highway and Nyanza will be shifted during this operation.
Paving of all sections of Phase 1 is set for mid-May provided the communication companies can relocate in time for the contractor to complete the storm drainage, grading, and concrete work that they still need to complete prior to paving. If they are unable to complete the relocation in the time needed, the contractor will need to reschedule the paving and will move to Phase 2 construction earlier than anticipated. Phase 1 work will be completed as soon as all utilities are cleared out of the way. The contractor and City understand the burden that this work is placing on commuters and are doing everything possible to complete this section of Gravelly Lake Drive as expeditiously as possible.
Phase 2 Construction
The contractor will begin work on the detour route at the west end of the project. The detour for the project will be Kenwood from Vernon to Nottingham and Nottingham from Kenwood to North Gate Road. During the preparation, the contractor will widen the roads mentioned above and overlay them. Striping will then be completed so that the roads are ready to handle the traffic. Four-way stops will be added to the Kenwood/Edgewood and Kenwood/Vernon intersections. There are no expected delays due to the detour set in place for Phase 2. This work is expected to start as early as next week.
And please don’t forget the potholes on Nyanza Rd SW need filling, please.
When will the round about Gravelly Lake/Washington Blvd be open?
That intersection will reopen in June
Wow, More delays, missed completion dates and even more congested out-of-control traffic, and project miss-management by the City of Lakewood.
Question?
If Comcast and Century Link can not fulfill agreed-upon contractual obligations to complete their part of this mess on time and force further delaying excuses by the City who is in control here. It’s not like Comcast and Century Link have not had 1 or 2 years at least to schedule their contractual obligations to finish on time.
Who is in control? Not the City of Lakewood. It looks like our local utility monopolies, Comcast and Century Link, can do what ever they please without being held accountable for delays and missed completion dates.
Every phase of JBLM North Access project work to date has been completed on schedule. The timeline to reopen Gravelly/Washington is still June, and the timeline to apply the top lift on Gravelly is still May. Both dates are as originally communicated.
Traffic is moving smoothly through the new roundabouts in general, although there have been some hangups on northbound GLD after exiting I-5 due to a lane closure there. At times, we’ve seen slight backups on southbound GLD.
These should be resolved soon once all lanes are open, the paving is finished, and all lanes are striped properly. There’s no delay there – that must be in May for acceptable temperatures to do the work. Spacing out layers of pavement is an intentional strategy to extend road life by many years.