6/2/2010
CALDWELL: Specht Avenue restrictions expected for rest of week
BOISE - Motorists can expect lane restrictions Wednesday and Thursday (June 2-3) as crews pour curb, gutter, and sidewalk on
Specht Avenue. Traffic will also be reduced to one lane for a few hours Friday (June 4) afternoon, beginning at approximately 1 p.m., while crews
perform a paving test strip.
Flaggers will direct motorists through the work zone.
Next week, roadway paving on Specht will require
night work and lane restrictions Tuesday through Friday (June 8-11), weather permitting.
Commercial Way between Specht and Franklin is closed
to through traffic. Franklin is closed while the roadway is reconstructed and
realigned to match up with the new five-lane roadway constructed last summer.
Motorists are detoured to 21st and Chicago streets. Businesses on Franklin can be accessed via Chicago.
The Franklin/21st intersection is about one-quarter
mile west of the newly-reconstructed Franklin Interchange (Exit 29). The
project will improve sight distance and safety on 21st and includes
new asphalt pavement, curb and gutter, sidewalk and lighting.
The first phase of this project, about a quarter-mile section of 21st,
was rebuilt last summer. The three-lane roadway was widened to five lanes.
Work on this phase is scheduled for completion in September.
Central Paving Co. of Boise is the contractor on this $1.66 million
project. Central Paving also was the contractor on the first phase of the
project last summer.