3/8/2013
Reed Hollinshead
ITD Communication
208-334-8881
reed.hollinshead@itd.idaho.gov
ITD to repair fire-damaged Interstate 84 stretch Wednesday
BOISE - Crews will repair a portion of roadway badly damaged by the mid-January truck fire on eastbound Interstate 84 near the East Boise Port of Entry on Wednesday (March 13).
Click here for a picture of the damage.
Idaho Transportation Department maintenance crews will remove and replace a four-inch-deep, 100-foot-long section of highway, working first in the left lane and then in the right lane.
Traffic control measures will be set up starting at 7 a.m. on Wednesday, with work scheduled from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. The speed limit will be reduced to 55 miles per hour.
The cost of the repair is estimated to be at least $9,300, which will be paid by the insurance carrier for United Oil, the truck that burned on Jan. 18 at milepost 67.6.