Improvements at Third and Sally to benefit pedestrians,
drivers
A year after Union Pacific did paving work to smooth out some of
the rickety railroad crossings in downtown Hollister, the city is
helping fund improvements to a crossing at Third Street near
Sally.
The work will include the installation of new curbs and gutters,
sidewalks, paving and the installation of barricades that will
close a section of Sally Street south of Third. Two water lines
under the tracks will also be replaced as part of the $180,000
project
– $55,800 of which will be reimbursed by the California Public
Utilities Commission.
Improvements at Third and Sally to benefit pedestrians, drivers
A year after Union Pacific did paving work to smooth out some of the rickety railroad crossings in downtown Hollister, the city is helping fund improvements to a crossing at Third Street near Sally.
The work will include the installation of new curbs and gutters, sidewalks, paving and the installation of barricades that will close a section of Sally Street south of Third. Two water lines under the tracks will also be replaced as part of the $180,000 project – $55,800 of which will be reimbursed by the California Public Utilities Commission.
The water line repair is necessary, according to Associate Civil Engineer David Rubcic, “because we’ve been spending a lot of money on repairing” those lines.
The permanent street closure will affect a few hundred feet of Sally Street, where there is “very little traffic,” according to Rubcic. Near the project, a one-way alley that is now eastbound only will also be re-routed so it accommodates only westbound traffic.
Don Chapin Company is expected to begin the waterline work within a few weeks, Rubcic said, and the entire project should be completed by the end of the year.
Train traffic through downtown is more common during the late summer and fall cannery season at San Benito Foods, usually once per day in and once out.
Union Pacific did paving work on its tracks on Third, Fourth and South streets near the intersection of McCray Street last year, because they were high-traffic areas and because citizens complained about the bumpy crossings.
