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Board approves eight additional highway projects
to be constructed with federal stimulus savings
The Idaho Transportation Board approved funding additional highway construction projects with savings realized from the eight original projects. The new projects were announced during the board's Aug. 20 business meeting in Rigby.
More than $50 million in bid savings emerged from the stimulus projects advertised this spring. The transportation board, at its July meeting, dedicated $15.8 million in savings to expand a section of U.S. 95 north of Hayden from two lanes to four.
Projects approved for stimulus funding last week are:
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Interstate-90, rehabilitation of I-90 bridges, $6.5 million
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U.S. 95, Grangeville area, pavement rehabilitation, $6 million
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Idaho 9, Latah County, pavement overlay, $2.23 million
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U.S. 95, Idaho 7 bridge rehabilitation, Lawyer's Canyon Bridge, Orofino Bridge, Ashaka Bridge, $1 million
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I-84, Black Canyon to Sand Hollow, concrete rehabilitation, $10 million
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I-15, pavement rehabilitation, Devil Creek to Downey, northbound, $4.9 million
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I-15, pavement rehabilitation, Devil Creek to Downey, southbound, $5.2 million
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I-15 pavement overlay, Idaho Falls to Osgood, northbound, $2.17 million
"Designating the remaining stimulus savings to improving the condition of our pavements and bridges makes sense," said Idaho Transportation Board Chairman Darrell Manning. "With more than one in five miles of Idaho's highway pavement being in poor condition, the transportation board made the right decision."
It is estimated the additional nine stimulus projects funded with the savings will create or sustain 900 jobs.The projects will be advertised for contractors to bid on this fall. Work is anticipated to begin in the spring of 2010.
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