At its October 9 regularly-scheduled commission meeting, the Port of Ridgefield announced it had received the last of the required sign-offs from the City of Ridgefield, Burlington Northern, Washington State Department of Transportation and the Federal Railroad Authority, allowing the port to go out for bids to complete the Pioneer Street Rail Overpass project.
The request for bid proposals was released on Oct. 16; bids are due back to the port by Nov. 13, 2019. Assuming a qualified bidder comes in at or below the project budget of $8 million to $11 million, the bid award will be made two weeks after the bid closing date, and construction will start in early 2020. With a successful bid process, it’s estimated that vehicles and pedestrians could be using the overpass by year-end 2020.
And this is what it will look like:
Comment from Kathy – imagine – no more train horns in the middle of the night!
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