The Birch Street and Sterling Highway project to install a lighted intersection is again impacting traffic in Soldotna after a short hiatus.
That construction shut down during the month of July to avoid the heavy fishing traffic according to the Department of Transportation’s Shannon McCarthy.
Now drivers in Soldotna should expect…
Mccarthy: “Lane restrictions 9 pm to 6 am and there will be flaggers too so if [drivers] could pay attention to the flaggers that would be great.”
McCarthy said crews are working on sidewalks and sidewalk ramps but will soon begin asphalt work.
McCarthy: “They are also going to be removing asphalt on the Sterling so there will be signs for that, we just ask the public to be patient with us. And then they’re going to be doing asphalt removal on Birch Street and Birch Place as well and that’s to put in those loops for the [traffic] signal detection.”
This summer the Department of Transportation is overseeing the largest amount of road construction projects in the past decade.
McCarthy said drivers should still plan an extra thirty minutes to one hour for long trips.
