IRVING AVENUE AT 19TH STREET BRIDGE REPLACEMENT PROJECT IN ASTORIA

Survey crews will begin work on Monday, September 10^th as part of a project to replace the aging Irving Avenue & 19^th Street Bridge in Astoria.  Survey work is anticipated to take two and a half weeks. Engineers and scientists will be making additional periodic visits to the site during the preliminary design phase of the project.  No delay to vehicular traffic is expected at this time. 

 

This work is necessary to help develop construction plans for the new bridge. The current Irving Avenue Bridge was built in 1946 from steel, which typically has a 50-year lifespan.  The new bridge will be built to handle safe vehicular, pedestrian, and bicycle passage.  Conceptual estimates put the cost of the new bridge at approximately $5 million. The Federal Highway Bridge Program, administered by the Oregon Department of Transportation, will fund 90% of the cost to replace the bridge.

Construction of a new bridge won’t begin until fall of 2013 at the earliest.  In the meantime technical consultants led by David Evans and Associates under the direction of the City of Astoria will be undertaking a variety of technical analysis and design tasks.