June 29, 2009

Update: Traffic, parking disruptions

-- Reminder: The Y-shaped intersection near Elliott Hall of Music and the Armory is now a three-way stop.

-- At the Gatewood Wing construction site alongside the Mechanical Engineering Building, the approach route for heavy vehicles is now from the intersection of State Street and Marsteller Street, coming north. In the area near Stanley Coulter Hall, pedestrians are to use the west part of Centennial Mall. Construction traffic will use the east part, nearer Wetherill Laboratory. Small golf cart-type vehicles are to avoid both. Gatewood Wing work in the next two weeks is to include 1) timber lagging; 2) continuing mass excavation. For continued updates and information about this project, go to www.purdue.edu/architect/about/construction/2734.htm.

-- Parking garage cleaning: At the south half of the University Street Garage, cleaning is to continue through Thursday (July 2). Work is being done from 10:30 p.m. to 7 a.m. Next is the north half of the Northwestern Avenue Garage, scheduled for July 5-20.

-- Off campus, State Road 26 West between County roads 300 West (Klondike Road) and 500 West will close July 6 and remain closed until late fall for a sight distance improvement project at both intersections (SR 26 and CR 300W, and SR 26 and CR 500W), both of which will be closed. Vehicles on CR 400W will be able to cross SR 26. Residents along the closed section of SR 26 will have access to their homes. Map (closure locations are approximate):  www.purdue.edu/physicalfacilities/travel/pdf/SR26_map.pdf.

-- Also off campus, the southbound off ramp from Interstate 65 at State Road 43 is to closed for reconstruction of the ramp. This is at Exit 178. The closure may continue until July 13. The detour exit for southbound I-65 is to use Exit 188, go east on State Road 18, then south on State Road 43. This announcement is from the Indiana Department of Transportation (INDOT).

Information is from Physical Facilities reports.