Street work will add safety & ambience

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All summer our streets have been getting the 100 year old sewer and water pipes replaced.  Bellingham Public Works has contracted to RAM Construction and together they have been carefully doing the work in sections so as to keep our traffic moving.  While all the shop owners are ready for the work to be done, they have all expressed their appreciation for how the city and RAM have tried so hard to minimize disruptions.  And, if the weather is decent, it may well all be done by Halloween. 

Above photo shows removal of the center strip of bricks on Harris Avenue where it crosses 12th Street - our main intersection.  The bricks were used to separate the trolley tracks a hundred years ago and have been covered by the asphalt road way for decades.  Now they are being carefully dug up and will be laid down across the intersection on top of the asphalt when repaving is done in a couple weeks.  This is a very appreciated extra task that Bellingham Public Works decided to do at the request of the Old Fairhaven Association president Stephanie Johnson.  While the repaving of 12th and intersections will improve safety in Fairhaven - with new curbs and crosswalks - the brick strip will add a small but very visible bit of ambience.  We thank the city and RAM Construction.

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