ITD provide updates on upcoming, ongoing projects
Work continues along I-90 throughout the City of Kellogg, including here on the Division Street Overpass. The work is scheduled to wrap up this fall and then resume on the opposite lanes next year.
AriAna McDonald
Fans of road construction season will be thrilled to hear that a new project will be beginning next week on Interstate 90.
Those of you who are not fans of road work… keep reading anyway, because you will probably want to know this too.
According to Megan Jahns with the Idaho Transportation Department (ITD), the project, beginning Monday, May 23, will be four miles east of Wallace and will consist of replacing the westbound structure on I-90 at the Golconda Exit.
“The bridge was built in 1963,” Jahns said. “Crews will focus on repairing the driving surface and sealing it to protect it from the elements, as well as jacking up the bridge to replace other components.”
The project will be completed by mid-November and will see traffic reduced to one lane.
While this may inconvenience some drivers, access to the ramps and to the nearby Trail of the Coeur d’Alenes will not be impacted – however flaggers will be in place underneath the bridges.
Several other projects are scheduled to begin this summer as well, including a project along I-90 between Mullan and the Montana border to fix a section of concrete barrier – this will begin in June and take roughly six weeks.
Another project slated for sometime between June and October, located four miles east of the bottom of Fourth of July Pass will include repaving and the installation of a barrier to prevent head-on collisions.
The worst ramps in Shoshone County will be repaved this summer, with work expected to start in July. As ramps are resurfaced, they will be closed for about a day each. All work is scheduled to take about six weeks.
Paving between Wallace and Mullan is scheduled to begin in July and take until September, with traffic reduced to one lane in each direction.
All of these projects are funded through typical ITD means, including State and Federal funding and all of them should be completed by the year’s end.
The current overpass projects going on in Kellogg however, will not be finished until 2023, with crews expected to wrap up the first half of the project by the end of this construction season.