PORT ANGELES — Downtown merchants gave their support today to a compromise work schedule for the First Street stormwater project.
The city’s contractor will go ahead with a daytime and evening work schedule for the first four to six weeks of the approximately three-month project and then hold another meeting with the Port Angeles Downtown Association to see if its members want the company to switch to working only at nights — outside of business hours.
That next meeting has not been scheduled.
The project mainly involves tearing up the right lane of the two lane street between Valley and Laurel streets.
Construction, expected to start Feb. 28, will occur from 9 a.m. to 10 p.m. Monday through Thursday — with no work between 4:30 p.m. and 6 p.m. — and 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Friday.
The stormwater pipe is expected to be in place under the street around Memorial Day (May 30), with some striping and street paving work happening in June.
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Reporter Tom Callis can be reached at 360-417-3532 or at tom.callis@peninsuladailynews.com.
