Contact: Brad Lemhouse, Public Works Senior Engineering Associate, 541-682-6928

Road name:  River Road (also known as First Avenue)

Location:  In Junction City at the Union Pacific Railroad crossing

Begin Closure:  Mile Post 0.16

End Closure:  Mile Post 0.18

Dates and times:  7 a.m., Monday, July 11 to 5 p.m., Thursday, July 14.

Alternate routes:  Eastbound traffic travel north on Front Street to Fourth Avenue, east on Fourth Avenue to Birch Street, then south on Birch Street to River Road (aka First Avenue). Westbound traffic travel north on Birch Street to Fourth Avenue, west on Fourth Avenue to Front Street, then south on Front Street to River Road (aka Fourth Avenue)

Reason for closure:  Union Pacific repair work on tracks at railroad crossing.   

Amber Fossen

Public Information Officer

Lane County Government

125 E. Eighth Ave.

Eugene, Oregon 97401

541.682.3718

541.359.9143 (cell)

www.lanecounty.org

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