Washington Street Corridor paving work wraps up — final enhancements underway
The town of Yountville has completed the first part of its annual paving project on local streets, according to a recent press release.
Each year one or streets is repaved, funded by Measure T/U, a county-wide half-cent sales tax from which the town receives an allocation for street maintenance projects.
This year’s project was the Washington Street corridor from Yount Street to the northerly town limits, along with Webber Avenue.
In addition to paving the street, the work includes pedestrian and bicycle improvements to Washington Street and Webber Avenue.
Some of these improvements can be seen in the new sidewalk configuration in front of Ciccio’s and the soon-to-open Pancha’s, as well as the new curb and gutter along the French Laundry Garden.
Now that the surface is paved, improvements to the Washington/Webber intersection will be added in the form of a four-way stop with a pedestrian “scramble” crosswalk, meaning the entire intersection will be walkable as the cars stop at the stop signs.
It will be distinguished by a textured, red-colored surface, like the town’s crosswalks up and down Washington Street. The stamped theme will continue on Webber Avenue, forming an “advisory lane” and creating the mid-town connector from the Vine Trail to the Yountville Commons site and the Hopper Creek Path.
Some of the work took place during one night in the most traveled and congested area of Washington Street’s business corridor. While there will be more day work on Washington and Webber to complete the features described above, the night work is complete.
