A contractor working for the Seattle Department of Transportation will close 15th Avenue NE between NE 45th Street and NE Ravenna Boulevard on Saturday, June 18, from 7 a.m. to 8 p.m. for street improvements. General traffic and buses will be detoured to University Way NE. One lane in each direction will be maintained on NE 50th Street. The closure will allow the contractor to install new drainage facilities in this area.

Beginning next week, the contractor will begin removing and replacing the pavement on 15th Avenue NE between NE 50th Street and NE 55th Street. One lane for each direction of traffic will remain open.

This work is part of the second phase of the 15th Avenue NE Reconstruction Project, between NE 45th Street and NE 55h Street.

For more information, please visit the project website at: http://www.seattle.gov/transportation/pave_15thavene.htm
or contact George Frost, (206) 615-0786, george.frost@seattle.gov.

Media contact: Marybeth Turner, (206) 684-8548, marybeth.turner@seattle.gov