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By Adam Donnelly

CITY OF KAMLOOPS

Columbia Street paving project to tie up traffic for about a week

Sep 29, 2020 | 4:19 PM

KAMLOOPS — One of the main thoroughfares through the city is getting a new sheet of asphalt, as well as other improvements over the next week, or so.

Columbia Street from Sixth Avenue to the Valleyview Interchange will be limited to single-lane alternating traffic throughout the work period, which will be in place Monday (Sept. 28) through Friday (Oct. 2) from 7:00 am until 5:00 pm. The improvements include new pavement, new traffic markings, and crews will be replacing utility fixtures. City of Kamloops Streets and Environmental Services Manager Glen Farrow says this is a pretty straightforward job for crews.

“This particular project is strictly a paving project. We’re not upgrading any water, sewer, storm lines underground. Strictly milling of the upper lift of asphalt and repaving that same section,” Farrow explains. “It’s a fairly significant stretch, but the one nice thing about that area is that it’s all gridded out, so there’s a lot of different options for you to get where you need to get.”

Similar projects have been undertaken by the city in previous years on Seymour and Lansdowne Streets. According to Farrow, this type of paving job should be good for somewhere around eight to ten years, depending on the traffic that travels that stretch of road on a regular basis.

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“For this particular job, we’re only resurfacing the travel lanes. We’re leaving the parking lanes. That’s often a common treatment,” Farrow says. “We’ve done that in the past on Lansdowne and Seymour Streets. If you look at those roads, we’re about eight years into those. So around that eight-to-ten-year mark is what typically we would get.”

Farrow says he expects work on the project to wrap up in about a week.