1/28/2010
Reed Hollinshead
ITD Communication
208-334-8881
reed.hollinshead@itd.idaho.gov
Franklin traffic to be detoured at 21st and Chicago in Caldwell starting Monday (Feb. 1)
BOISE - The Idaho Transportation Department advises motorists that traffic on Franklin Road between 21st Avenue and Chicago Street in Caldwell will be detoured starting Monday (Feb. 1) after the morning commute.
The detour will be in place through this summer, when work at the intersection concludes. Motorists will be detoured to 21st and Chicago.
Also, Commercial Way between Specht Avenue and Franklin is closed to through traffic.
Commercial Way will be realigned so that it joins the intersection of Franklin and 21st. Crews will install a new traffic signal at this location. The Franklin/21st Avenue intersection is about one-quarter mile west of the newly-reconstructed Franklin Road Interchange (Exit 29).
The roadway reconstruction project will improve sight distance and safety, and the road will align to match up with the new five-lane roadway on 21st Avenue. The project also includes excavation, new asphalt pavement, curb and gutter, storm sewer, sidewalk, lighting, and installation of a 35-foot concrete bridge over the Notus Canal.
The first phase of this
project, about a quarter-mile section of 21st Avenue, was rebuilt last summer.
The three-lane roadway was widened to five lanes.
Work on this phase is
anticipated to be complete in September 2010.
Central Paving Co. of Boise is the contractor on this $1.66 million project. Central Paving also was the contractor on the work last summer.