4/25/2013
Reed Hollinshead
ITD Communication
208-334-8881
reed.hollinshead@itd.idaho.gov
Another stage of Idaho 16 extension project gets under way as local roads are adjusted
BOISE - Crews will pave new local roads between Joplin Road and Chinden Blvd. Monday (April 29), after which a section of Joplin Road will close and traffic will need to use the new routes created by the paving. The closure is necessary to construct the new Idaho 16 alignment from U.S. 20 to the Phyllis Canal Bridge and to the north.
From U.S. 20, motorists will use N. Rufus Avenue to W. Old School Drive to N. Fairbanks Way to W. Hobart Drive to Joplin Road. North Pollard Place, north of U.S. 20, will also be closed at Joplin Road.
Rufus Avenue is one of the new routes being created as part of the 2.5-mile extension of Idaho 16 connecting Chinden Boulevard (U.S. 20/26) to State Street (Idaho 44), including construction of a 1,726-foot bridge over the Boise River and a new crossing of the Phyllis Canal. Work has been under way since May 2012 and is expected to finish by the fall of 2014.
N. Rufus Avenue will be the only public road on the north side of Chinden between McDermott Road and Star Road.
Four new roads are being created that will be used to access Chinden from Joplin and vice versa.
- N. Rufus Avenue
- W. Old School Drive
- N. Fairbanks Way
- W. Hobart Drive
Concrete Placing Co., of Boise, and Idaho Sand & Gravel, of Nampa, are the prime contractors on these projects. Knife River Const., of Boise and Nampa Paving are two of the main sub-contractors for this work. The total construction cost is $38.94 million.