Kirkland’s capital project engineers are designing and managing an eclectic array of projects that will improve residents’ quality of life. A digest of those project follows.
Kirkland’s capital project engineers are designing and managing an eclectic array of projects that will improve residents’ quality of life. A digest of those project follows.
Kirkland’s capital improvement program is currently managing more than a dozen active projects that, when completed, will improve the community’s basic needs.
Kirkland’s Northeast 85th Street overlay contractor begins preparing the arterial for its new street surface this week. Cemex plans to move equipment to 85th Street and to begin surveying the section its work crews will repave and re-stripe: from 114th Avenue Northeast to 132nd Avenue Northeast.
Several sections of North Juanita’s neighborhood roads were close beginning on Aug. 3 while contracted work crews apply a slurry seal to them that will extend their useful lives by five to 10 years.
Several sections of North Juanita’s neighborhood roads will close Aug. 3 while contracted work crews apply a slurry seal to them that will extend their useful lives by five to 10 years.
Kirkland’s capital improvement program is in the midst of designing, building and completing projects that are improving the city.
Kirkland’s capital improvement program is in the midst of designing, building and completing projects that are improving the city. A digest of those projects is included below:
Peter Kirk Elementary School’s second graders participated in an interactive ecology lesson on April 17 on Park Lane.
A second life for Park Lane’s down trees began Feb. 9 when a three-man crew—two of them minimum security inmates from Cedar Creek Correctional Center — arrived at Everest Park’s north parking lot to transport those rain-soaked tree trunks back to the Correctional Center in Littlerock, Wash.
The city of Kirkland re-opened 99th Place Northeast on Jan. 6 to evening and early morning traffic.
During the past 12 months, the Park Lane project team has been working with residents and business owners to redesign Park Lane into a greener, more walkable and vibrant corridor. Park Lane’s new plaza-style street will feature a one-level surface of brick pavers and a new stormwater system that will better protect Lake Washington from the pollutants that drain to it every time it rains.
Northeast 120th Street is performing “remarkably well,” said Chuck Morrison, a Kirkland transportation engineer who has been closely monitoring Totem Lake traffic since the city brought the 900-foot extension onto its street network Wednesday afternoon.
Annexations have added more than 115 miles of existing roads to Kirkland’s street network in the past few decades.
After a week devoted to Northeast 85th Street’s stormwater system, Johansen Excavating’s night crews resume water main installation Monday night near the street’s intersection with 126th Avenue Northeast. Johansen will continue installing water main for at least two more weeks.
Kirkland’s 85th Street contractor is preparing the corridor this week for its next component of construction: installation of a 24-inch water main, which will run from the west side of the I-405 overpass to 132nd Avenue Northeast.
Streets in the Bridle Trails and South Rose Hill neighborhoods, which were originally scheduled for slurry seal on Aug. 14, are now scheduled for slurry seal on Aug. 21.
Kirkland’s overlay contractor began prep work today on 120th Avenue Northeast and Northeast 112th Street, two of the six arterials scheduled for overlay this summer.
The Park Lane design team knows Kirkland residents want a Park Lane corridor that is walkable, vibrant and green. But how those general values translate into specific details, such as types of lighting fixtures or surface textures, is not so clear.
The average wait for a car stopped at the intersection of Northeast 116th Street and 124th Avenue Northeast lasts a minute and 23 seconds. That, according to the city of Kirkland’s transportation policies, is nearing failure.
Transportation engineers will use the center to untangle some of the traffic knots that snarl up the city’s most congested intersections.
Kirkland leaders gathered with more than 200 of its residents on Sunday to celebrate the Cross Kirkland Corridor’s continuing transformation.
Simon was assisted by the new rapid flashing beacons, which the city of Kirkland installed in time for National Walk to School Week.
