Photo by South OC Beaches of Caltrans Work on I-5 Freeway at Stonehill in Capo Beach.
Caltrans night work has switched to day work so area residents can sleep at night.
The next three weeks Caltrans has to create a stable foundation for the I-5 freeway near Dana Point.
The equipment used will create loud sounds.
The logic is that area residents need to sleep so Caltrans will be working during daytime hours.
There will also be significant lane closures during this time.
The Orange County Transportation Authority (OCTA) has posted the following information on their website:
This week construction crews will close two southbound lanes of the San Diego Freeway (I-5) daily in San Juan Capistrano to perform pile driving work, which could continue until February 15 2015.
The southbound lane closures, scheduled from 5 a.m. to 1 p.m., Monday through Friday, may cause freeway delays and motorists are encouraged to leave extra time to reach their destinations or consider alternate routes.
The closures are necessary so workers have room to safely perform the pile driving, which is being done to create a stable foundation for the freeway widening.
The pile driving must be completed by Feb. 15, when environmental regulations prevent the work from occurring because of nesting season for birds and bats.
Nesting season is between Feb. 16 2015 and Sept. 1 2015
Pile driving is one of the most disruptive construction activities.
Because of the significant noise and vibration caused by pile driving, the work will be done during the day to limit the impact to the residents who live in the nearby community.
The work will occur on the southbound side of I-5 on the slope adjacent to Camino Capistrano, between Stone Hill Drive and Doheny Park Road.
The $230 million project is constructing a carpool lane in each direction on I-5 between Avenida Pico in San Clemente and San Juan Creek Road in San Juan Capistrano, an area that is notorious for weekend traffic jams and weekday rush-hour bottlenecks.
The project will help alleviate the backups by providing a continuous number of lanes – four general-purpose and one carpool – in each direction, eliminating the need for vehicles to merge as they must do now when the existing carpool lane ends.
The project also will reconstruct the Avenida Pico interchange.
The Measure M project is funded with Orange County’s half-cent sales tax for transportation improvements and a combination of state and federal dollars.
For more information please link to
OCTA
For more information, visit: http://www.octa.net/I-5Pico
