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Daily archives for December 19th, 2007

Update on I-405 Repair; right lane open next week, cost is 7 million dollars

Dec19
2007 Written by Randy Corman

Subject: Fwd: I-405 Culvert Repair — status

Mayor and Full Council, for your information

>>> Peter Hahn 12/18/2007 4:56 PM >>>
Transportation Committee:

This is a followup to a conversation Marcie and I had around noon today.

We met with WSDOT today and we have this to report:

There are two parts to the repair: the temporary repair and the permanent one.

The temporary one is intended to handle any more severe rain fall in the next several months. It consists of the installation of 3 – 24 inch pipes to convey water, plus 15 pumps and generators. This work is supposed to be completed before year’s end, or even slighly sooner (no one is eager to work over Christmas).

The permanent replacement of the 48 inch culvert will be designed and awarded before the end of January with completion by end of March.

The estimated cost is $5 million for the permanent, and $2 million + $250,000 in equipment rental for the temporary.

WSDOT does not anticipate a lot of lane closure after this week and very little thereafter.

Peter

Peter Hahn
Deputy Administrator
Planning, Building, Public Works
City of Renton

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The US Supreme Court agrees to review punctuation….oh, and gun ownership too

Dec19
2007 Written by Randy Corman

The New York Times ran an interesting opinion piece about the Supreme Court’s agreement to review the Second Amendment for the first time in 70 years. All parties are hanging their arguements on what our founding fathers meant with their punctuation. (I don’t know what the court would do with a typical text message today.)

Obviously, any change in the meaning of this amendment could have far-reaching ripple-down effects in all fifty states and countless cities and counties (depending on what voters wanted.)

Click Here for the story

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