OLYMPIC NATIONAL PARK — Four-hour delays are scheduled this week on U.S. Highway 101 as it curves around Lake Crescent.
The delays will be from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Monday through Thursday.
The four-hour delays will continue daily, weather permitting, Monday through Thursday until all 20 of the allotted four-hour delays are utilized, said Penny Wagner, Olympic National Park spokeswoman. There are eight remaining four-hour delays, she said.
During the four-hour delays this week, Highway 101 eastbound from Forks will remain open to the turn for Barnes Point where Lake Crescent Lodge is located. Westbound from Port Angeles, the highway will remain open up to mile marker 232/East Beach Road.
Travelers to and from the western side of the North Olympic Peninsula can use state highways 112 and 113 as an alternate route during the delay.
Outside of the scheduled four-hour delays, drivers should expect up to half-hour delays Monday through Friday during work hours.
A pilot car is leading traffic through the single-lane work zone between milepost 232/East Beach Road and milepost 228/Barnes Point-Lake Crescent Road.
Crews also are working west of Barnes Point so drivers should expect short delays for alternating single-lane traffic.
Temporary traffic signals are in operation before and after work hours and on weekends.
Through late September, work hours are restricted to two hours after sunrise to two hours before sunset.
Strider Construction Inc., of Bellingham is in its second of three seasons of work to rehabilitate 12 miles of the highway around Lake Crescent in a project costing $27.5 million. Construction seasons are from March through mid-November.
The work for 2018 includes erosion control, subexcavation, milling and paving beginning on the eastern end of Lake Crescent and working west.
For more information, see http://tinyurl.com/PDN-101delays.
