Community Corner
Apricot Annie's Update: A 7-Day Work Week for a New Opening Date
Crews upgraded traffic signal sensors to reduce congestion and will replace manhole covers, and the city has revised the intersection's re-opening to Sept. 26.
Downtown businesses, please hang on: The tentative opening date for the First and Main streets intersection has been revised to Monday, Sept. 26.
Sept. 26. Three more weeks.
To do that, crews will be working 10-12 hour days, seven days a week now.
Find out what's happening in Los Altoswith free, real-time updates from Patch.
This week, 's First Street construction update revised the opening of the First and Main streets intersection. It's been closed since July 18, the week demolition started.
"This will be the entire intersection all the way out to Foothill Expressway, instead of opening one segment at a time," wrote project information manager, Beverly Tucker, in the update newsletter released Friday.
Find out what's happening in Los Altoswith free, real-time updates from Patch.
Each week, Annie's Update, more prosaically named "First Street Construction Update," lands in email boxes all over town. This service began when First Street construction ramped up nearly two months ago. Each week Patch provides an abridged version of the update.
To access the full report you can:
- Visit the First Street Los Altos website
- If you like social media for its immediacy, you should "like" the First Street Project Facebook page
- And follow on Twitter at @FirstStreetLA
- Sign up for Annie's Updates newsletter so it just lands in your mailbox
After taking a much-needed break for the Labor Day weekend, crews will get back to work on Tuesday for 10-12 hours, seven days a week.
New traffic signal sensors that synchronize with Foothill Expressway and Edith Avenue were installed in an effort to reduce commute congestion from the construction.
What's Happening Next: Today Through Saturday
- Remove the two sewer manholes in the First and Main intersection and replace with new lower covers and cones (carry over from last week).
- Continue installing Geo-fabric and base rock for the new road bed.
- Finish excavation of below grade dirt for street sub-base along First Street near water pipe.
- Complete final manhole of new storm drain on First Street and connect to the main system.
- Begin saw cutting First Street sidewalk from State Street to the North Plaza for irrigation and electrical lines (carry over from last week).
Traffic Update
- Temporary lane closure on First Street between State and Parking Plaza North will continue, with flaggers controlling traffic during work hours until manhole complete.
Outreach Updates
- Began distributing Annie's Downtown contact cards to businesses.
- Diagram of phased road openings will be distributed next week, mid-week.
