Project Title & Location
NSC - Francis Avenue to Farwell Road - Construct New Roadway

Project Description
Constructs two lanes of the North Spokane Corridor between Farwell Road and Francis Avenue. Provides a new road between these two major county roads and completes the grading between US 2 and Wandermere. This project will increase capacity and reduce travel time. There will be two lanes when this project is completed.

Contractor/Consultant
Francis Avenue to US 2 Structures-Max J. Kuney Company, Freya to Francis Vic.-Grading and Structures-Steelman Duff, Freya St. to Farwell Rd.-PCCP Paving- Acme Concrete Paving, Inc

Recent Progress
 The first two contracts, Farwell Road Lowering, and Gerlach to Wandermere Grading, have been completed.   The  third contract, Francis Avenue to U.S. 2 – Structures, constructs 6 bridges between Fairview Road and Perry Street.  Currently the contractor is working simultaneously on the Fairview, Market and Parksmith and Shady Slope and Perry structures.   The fourth contract, Freya to Francis Vic. – Grading and Structures is currently under construction.  This section completes the eathwork between Fairview and Freya, constructs two new bridges and makes modifications to the County road system. The fifth contract, Freya St. to Farwell Rd. – PCCP Paving  was executed on May 23, 2007.  The Contractor is scheduled to begin on site work on October 15, 2007.  Initial work will be crushing with grading and construction of PCCP beginning in the Spring of 2008.  This section paves the mainline NSC, Farwell Road and adds a right turn lane to US 2.  The sixth contract, BNSF RR Tunnel is scheduled for advertisement in summer 2007.  It constructs the NSC Overcrossing of the BNSF Railroad line and completes the driveable link between Freya St. and Farwell Road. Lack of communication from BNSF continues to be a schedule risk.

Design Construction Impacts
The Region continues to monitor the overall cost of the NSC projects and is continually investigating methods to build the project as scoped for the least possible dollars.

Environmental Impacts / Compliance
No impacts at this time

Impacts to Traffic
The US 2 detour is open to traffic, no restrictions are anticipated.  Market street has been moved to a temporary detour.  Napa Road was closed and cul-de-sacs were built at Winger Road and Garden Road.  The new Piper Road and temporary Perry Road alignments have been opened to traffic. 

Planned vs. Actual Expenditures
(Total Project Cost)

Nickel funds included in above costs

2005 Transportation Partnership Account