Next week a city project will begin along Willow Creek near the Campus Drive bike path. Everything I know about it is included in the email below, but all you really need to know about it is that:
1) The Campus Drive Bike Path itself will remain OPEN. 2) The path connection between the Campus Drive Path and Easterday Lane (between Willow Creek and Veterinary Medicine) will be closed by a staging area for this project. So if you use the Campus Drive Path in an eastbound direction, and usually get off there (to connect, e.g. to the Lakeshore Path or the Natatorium or the Bcycle station there), you're going to need to continue east past Veterinary Medicine to the eastern terminus of the Campus Drive Path and connect from there. 3) Also note that Linden Drive north of the US Dairy Forage Research Center is closed, though you can circumvent that closure on a bicycle by using the service drive south of US Dairy Forage Research and north of the Dairy Barn and Dairy Cattle Center. The closure of Linden Drive north of US Dairy Forage is a federal project that I know nothing else about, including how long it will continue. Thanks for coming to (or through) campus without a car. Chuck Strawser Pedestrian & Bicycle Transportation Planner Commuter Solutions UW-Madison Transportation Services Please note that my email address has changed. My new email is charles.straw...@wisc.edu<mailto:charles.straw...@wisc.edu> Visit our University Bicycle Resource Center at Helen C White: http://transportation.wisc.edu/transportation/bike_annex.aspx How are we doing? Take our customer satisfaction survey at https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/CommSol_CSSurvey Sent: Tuesday, October 11, 2016 3:26 PM Subject: Willow Creek - City Project Begins Hello All FYI - Next week the City of Madison is starting construction of a stormwater sediment basin within Willow Creek on UW property just north of Campus Drive. The City has negotiated a construction easement with UW for the project. The City's contractor is RG Huston who is the same contractor at our Near West Playfield project. The project will continue through the winter and be finished in early spring. The work will require a crane for removing soil, setting sheet pile, and placing concrete. The contractor will be accessing the construction site thru Herrick Drive which will require considerable coordination between UW Grounds and the contractor for vehicle access, staging, and storage. The contractor will also have a small staging and storage area east of the creek which will close a section of the bike path that leads to Easterday Drive. The Campus Drive bike path will remain open during the entire duration of the project. The project will involve no utility construction except for extending a 6'x10' box culvert owned by the City. There is a UW utility bridge over the existing creek that is to remain undisturbed and is to be protected with shoring/ sheet piles during excavating operations.
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