OLYMPIC NATIONAL PARK — The four-hour delays drivers have become accustomed to on U.S. Highway 101 as it skirts Lake Crescent will be on hiatus this week.
No four-hour delays are planned this week, said Penny Wagner, Olympic National Park spokeswoman.
They will be continued next week, starting April 23, with delays from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Monday through Thursday, weather permitting, until all 20 of the allotted four-hour delays are utilized. There are 12 remaining four-hour delays.
However, drivers should expect this week delays of up to 30 minutes during work hours Monday through Friday.
A pilot car will lead traffic through the single-lane work zone between East Beach Road and Barnes Point. 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.
