US-95: Granite North
This project will improve safety by expanding US-95 over Granite Hill, building frontages roads to consolidate access to the highway and realigning the Trails End Road intersection.
Work is expected to be done in 2022.
Construction
Tree removal started in February 2021, and crews are expected to start blasting in March 2021. More information about timing and impacts will be released when available.
Work this season will focus on building the frontage road to the east–named Mineral Ridge–and then expanding US-95. In 2022, both US-95 expansion and the frontage road to the west–Vintage 95–are expected to be complete. Generally speaking, drivers can expect two lanes through most of construction. At this time the schedule for closing several county road intersections with US-95 are not known, but more details will be released as they are provided by the contractor.
Latest design
Following the public meeting in July 2018, the design team made changes to the project to incorporate feedback, limit impacts and reduce costs.
Note that US-95 intersections with Mara Meadows, Granite Loop Road, Old House Road, Homestead Road and North Williams Lane (at the county line) will be closed and reconnected to frontage roads that will run parallel on both sides of the highway to safely intersect with Idaho Highway 54 or Trails End Road. East Williams Lane will be left as is.
Though not called out in the map, the existing graded gravel path at the south end of the project will be extended through so it can be paved at a later date.
Design update 2019