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<h2 style="font-size: 150%;">FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE</h2>
<p style="font-size: 120%; margin-top: -5px; font-weight:bold;">September 24, 2019</p>
<p style="float:right; font-weight:bold; margin-bottom: 25px; font-size: 100%; text-align:right;">CONTACT: CONTACT: Barry Dalton
<br />Community Relations Specialist
<br />Public Works Department
<br />City of Columbia
<br />573.874.7217
<br />Barry.Dalton@CoMo.gov</p>
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<div style="font-size: 110%; line-height:150%;"><h3 style="clear:both; margin-top: 75px; margin-bottom: 10px; font-weight: bold; font-size: 130%;">Update: Oak Street to close to through traffic between Sexton Road and Lynn Street beginning Sept. 25</h3>
<div class="content"><span style="padding-left: 50px;">(COLUMBIA, MO)</span> - <p style="display:inline;"><span style="font-weight: 400;"><strong>UPDATE: </strong><br /><br />BP Paterson, the contractor for the Lynn-Oak-Sexton sidewalk capital improvement project, plans to close Oak Street </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">between Sexton Road and Lynn Street</span><span style="font-weight: 400;"> to through traffic beginning Wednesday, Sept. 25. </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">Residents have been notified and will be able to access their driveways from Oak Street. This closure is necessary for City of Columbia Water & Light to relocate a water line and for the contractor to complete </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">construction of the sidewalk gaps along the block of Lynn Street, Oak Street and Sexton Road.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Please watch for updates on social media or online at </span><a href="https://www.como.gov/publicworks/lynn-oak-sexton-sidewalk/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">CoMo.gov/PublicWorks/Lynn-Oak-Sexton-Sidewalk</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> and adhere to signs posted in the work zone. </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">Motorists, nonmotorized transportation users and pedestrians are urged to use extreme caution in the work zone.</span></p>
<p style="display: inline;"><br /><br /><em>Previous Press Release (Sept. 13, 2019):</em><br /><br /><strong>Sidewalk construction on Lynn, Oak, Sexton scheduled to begin Sept. 16</strong><br /><br />BP Paterson, the contractor for the Lynn-Oak-Sexton sidewalk capital improvement project, plans to begin construction Monday, Sept. 16, weather permitting. The project is estimated to take 45 days, weather permitting.</p>
<p>Concrete sidewalks will be constructed to fill in the sidewalk gaps along the block of Lynn Street, Oak Street and Sexton Road. Some lane restrictions and a short-term closure on Oak Street<span class="text_exposed_show"> will be required during the project. Please watch for updates on social media or online at <a href="http://como.gov/PublicWorks/Lynn-Oak-Sexton-sidewalk?fbclid=IwAR3SIwImlA2Uze4MUSoovj253TKhCFAUlXCpX6MfmzqQjwZ9P7geV2KruUc" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow" data-ft="{" data-lynx-mode="async" data-lynx-uri="https://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2FCoMo.gov%2FPublicWorks%2FLynn-Oak-Sexton-sidewalk%3Ffbclid%3DIwAR3SIwImlA2Uze4MUSoovj253TKhCFAUlXCpX6MfmzqQjwZ9P7geV2KruUc&h=AT0AVNI6OBoBdfAjrM6K6_cUPOPJVDLEWbsubI3z08BANH9uhqe1XGoYs740Yexta6n7pgjd2mGk0tpKAS8zX-Lvleatwn0c2TPhD1gH1wUT-NOPKeCEqvmhNxIVcpVEtJ1SwE2fjm5uRLdn-nci0kvW43E4jAOiYOkEGStFQpaDSCp4VlcuG5f88XAbgqHNwyV0oTM5y9R12wDB-bo0LdYsTEP3MrTr9e_6MNHmmQe5F28t23UvD0_piJoxgGTFaPJMharpI_GRA
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<p>The estimated investment is $213,000 paid for through the 2015 Capital Improvement Sales Tax ballot and a Community Development Block Grant. An interested parties meeting was held Nov. 15, 2016, and a public hearing before City Council took place Aug. 7, 2017.</p>
<p>Motorists, nonmotorized transportation users and pedestrians are urged to use extreme caution in the work zone. Pedestrians will need to use alternate routes.</p>
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