As Murphy Road opens, Brookswood-Pinebrook closes
As the Murphy Road project opens in Bend on Monday, the intersection of Brookswood Boulevard and Pinebrook Boulevard will be closed at 10:30 a.m. for 10-14 days due to construction activities, ODOT advised Friday.
Other traffic changes include:
• The new Murphy Road extension between Third Street and Brookswood Blvd. opens Monday at 10:30 a.m.
• Northbound Brookswood Blvd. will close at the new roundabout. Motorists will be detoured (see detour map) east to 3rd Street via the new Murphy Road extension.
• Pinebrook Blvd. will be closed at Brookswood Blvd. to thru traffic. Residents along Pinebrook Blvd. will access their homes from the Bend Parkway (U.S. 97).
• Southbound Brookswood Blvd. will not be affected except there will be no access to Pinebrook Blvd.
The final step for this phase of the Murphy Road project will be to install a center median barrier on U.S. 97 at Pinebrook Blvd., and remove the traffic signals. In the future, only right in and right out movements at U.S. 97 and Pinebrook Blvd. will be allowed. All work for this phase of the project is expected to be completed by mid-December.
The $27.7 million project has been funded through the 2009 Jobs and Transportation Act, which included a 6 cent per gallon gas tax increase.
Meanwhile, starting early on Monday and continuing through Thursday afternoon, Wilson Avenue will be closed at the railroad tracks just west of Ninth Street.
BNSF Railway will be replacing the tracks at Wilson Avenue just west of Ninth Street. The city will then replace a section of road just east and west of the tracks.
The closure and detour will be in place 24-hours a day until the work is completed.
Reed Market Road, which opened this week, will be the primary detour during construction. Detour route: Third Street and Ninth Street north and southbound, and Franklin Avenue and Reed Market Road east and west bound. Signs will notify travelers of detours.
Schedules are subject to change subject to weather and other factors.
