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.
Pending finalized right of way negotiations, the project will go to bid for construction for 2020-2022.
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.
Design update 2019Tentative staging plans call for three years of construction, beginning in fall 2020:
Construction will be dependent on the acquisition of right of way, and staging could change once a contractor is hired.
New frontages roads will be constructed to eliminate multiple access points that have been the scene of numerous crashes in the past.
Overall improvements will cost $36 million to design and construct, with $23 million coming from the GARVEE Transportation Program. Read more about GARVEE funding.