9/4/2009
Advisory: Gov. Otter to lead Sept. 14 groundbreaking for Twin Falls Alternate Route
TWIN FALLS -- Governor C.L. "Butch" Otter will lead a groundbreaking ceremony on Monday, Sept. 14, at 10:30 a.m., to start construction of the Twin Falls Alternate Route Stage 2. The $26.6 million project will create jobs, stimulate economic activity, improve motorist safety and reduce congestion through Twin Falls.
The project is funded with federal
stimulus money and is estimated to sustain or create approximately 500 jobs.
Joining the governor will be Idaho
Senate Transportation Committee Chairman John McGee, Rep. Leon Smith, Twin
Falls Mayor Lance Clow and Glanbia Inc., President and CEO Jeff Williams.
The ceremony for the Twin Falls
Alternate Route Stage 2 will be held at 4100 North 2660 East. Traveling on Pole
Line Road, the ceremony will take place approximately 2.5 miles west of
Washington Street and four miles east of Filer. The ceremony will be adjacent
to the Rock Creek crossing where a new bridge will be built. The ceremony
location will be clearly marked by signs.
The project
will reduce congestion, speed commerce and improve local shopping opportunities
by providing a bypass for motorists and commercial traffic traveling past Twin
Falls.
The first stage of the Twin Falls
Alternate Route, from Blue Lakes Boulevard to Grandview Drive, was completed in
2006. Stage 2 will continue west for six miles along Pole Line Road to 2400
East Road then south to the U.S. 93/U.S. 30 junction. The highway will be two
lanes but is engineered to expand to four lanes when traffic volume warrants.
The project also will construct a
four-lane bridge over Rock Creek Canyon. The existing dirt fill and culvert
will be removed and the creek restored through this area as part of the
project.
W.W. Clyde Inc. of Springville, Utah,
is the contractor on the project. Construction will begin this fall and is
expected to be complete by the end of 2011.
Location
of groundbreaking:
4100 North 2660 East
East of Rock Creek
South of Pole Line Road, about 2.5 miles
west of Washington Street.
4 miles east of Filer. Watch for
ceremony signs.
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MEDIA NOTE (not for dissemination):
B roll video available on Sept. 13:
Video clips of the project area will be available after 5 p.m. on Sunday, Sept.
13, for use on the Sept. 14 morning news shows. Download from the following FTP
site: ftp://ftp1.idaho.gov.
Log on with the user name itdcommu and
use the password W39gy7D2.
For those who do not have FTP software,
the video can be retrieved from http://itd.idaho.gov/news
Video
clips, photos, sound bites of Sept. 14 ceremony:
Video clips, photos and audio clips of the ceremony will be available on Sept.
14 after 1 p.m.
Download from the following FTP site: ftp://ftp1.idaho.gov.
Log on with the user name itdcommu
and use the password W39gy7D2.
For those who do not have FTP software, the video, photos and audio can be
retrieved from http://itd.idaho.gov/news
Radio: Audio clips from the Sept. 14
ceremony will be e-mailed directly to radio stations statewide following the
ceremony.