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Highway improvement projects planned in D-4

It’s an old joke: In Idaho we have four seasons – winter, winter, winter and construction. It’s about time for that fourth season.

District 4 is prepared to complete bridge maintenance, repairs and deck rehabilitation to 34 bridges in the Magic Val-ley. With more than half of these bridge projects taking place along Interstate 84, there will be minimal lane closures and negative impact to local drivers.

However, much attention will be on a project to resurface the driving surface of the Perrine Bridge that will reduce the roadway to two lanes for nearly a month. The project also will address pedestrian railing and several other bridge maintenance items.

Bridge projects also will take place at I-84 in both Burley and Jerome.

Roadway maintenance and preservation will be a common sight this summer with a handful of resurfacing projects and nearly 150 miles of chip seals or micro-seal coats by the end of the year.

The seal coat sections will include portions of U.S. 93 near Twin Falls and will complete 2011 projects between Hailey and Ketchum, north of Galena Summit and on I-84 in eastern Cassia County.

Much attention will be paid to a pair of major construction projects in southern Twin Falls County and north from Shoshone. The project to rehabilitate U.S. 93 for about 13 miles from milepost 5.5 to near milepost 18 north of Rogerson will slow traffic most of the summer.

But traffic on Idaho 75 for about eight miles north of Shoshone will have an easier time as two lanes will remain open during the construction project. There also are sign upgrades, striping and a new signal on Idaho 25 at Tiger Drive in Jerome.

I-84	King Hill to Bliss, sealcoat	Districtwide sealcoats
	Burley to Jct. I-86, sealcoat	U.S. 20	Milepost 130 to Camas County
	Interchange 228 to milepost 239, Sign upgrades		Gannett Road to Silver Creek
	Sweetzer to Cassia County Line, sealcoat	U.S. 30	Hagerman, Idaho Street
U.S. 20	Poison Creek to milepost 181.1		Kimberly Road, Cemetery to 3400 E.
U.S. 93	Milepost 5.5 to Deep Creek	U.S. 93	Twin Falls, Falls to Pole Line
	Twin Falls Alternate Route sealcoat	Idaho 24	East of Shoshone
Idaho 25	Tiger Drive signal installation	Idaho 25	Jerome, Main Street
	X Canal Drain	Idaho 27	Burley, Overland Road
	100 East Road to Jct. I-84	Idaho 46	Buhl to Snake River
Idaho 75	Shoshone North		South of I-84
	Jct. U.S. 20 to milepost 105		North of Wendell
	Hailey to Ketchum microseal	Idaho 74	U.S. 93 to Twin Falls
	Frenchman Creek to Stanley sealcoat	Idaho 77	South of Albion
Various	Pavement striping
	Guardrail
	Bridge repairs