Beach? Past the light and on your left

Resurfacing work on the North Shore Road started September 28th (more federal stimulus money, thank you)  and you can expect some delays for months, but it doesn’t sound too bad.

“There will be one way closures throughout the whole project. That’s the only way to do it,” Butch Brooks from the Federal Highway Administration tells us. “There will be times when you might have to wait a few minutes [at the stoplights], but it’s going to go quicker than people think.”

The first leg of work, now underway, runs from Mongoose Junction to the Cruz Bay overlook with stop lights at both ends regulating the one-way traffic, and he’s right, the stoplight cycles in five minutes or so. We’ve got five minutes to spare. So do you.

The project will resurface 8.5 miles of the North Shore Road and take “a year or maybe a little bit longer,” Brooks says.

The feds are on this project, just like the ahead-of-schedule, under-budget roundabout. (No, really It is.) More from Butch about the roundabout later this week.

And a North Shore Jeep Cam soon come too.

(Why is it good the feds are on this? Because your tax dollars are actually being spent where intended.)

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