North Stratford Road improvements to begin
CHERYL SCHWEIZER | Hagadone News Network | UPDATED 5 years, 5 months AGO
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Traffic moves through the intersection at Stratford Road and Valley Road Thursday evening. The intersection will be widened during construction that starts July 6.
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Traffic moves through the intersection at North Stratford Road and Valley Road on Thursday evening. The intersection will be widened during construction that starts Monday.
Cheryl Schweizer/Columbia Basin Herald
Traffic moves through the intersection at Stratford Road and Valley Road Thursday evening. The intersection will be widened during construction that starts July 6.
Cheryl Schweizer/Columbia Basin Herald
Traffic moves through the intersection at Stratford Road and Valley Road Thursday evening. The intersection will be widened during construction that starts July 6.
Cheryl Schweizer/Columbia Basin Herald
Senior Reporter Cheryl Schweizer is a journalist with more than 30 years of experience serving small communities in the Pacific Northwest. She began her post-high-school education at Treasure Valley Community College and enerned her journalism degree at Oregon State University. After working for multiple publications, she has settled down at the Columbia Basin Herald and has been a staple of the newsroom for more than a decade. Schweizer’s dedication to her communities and profession has earned her the nickname “The Baroness of Bylines.” She covers a variety of beats including health, business and various municipalities. | July 2, 2020 11:58 PM
MOSES LAKE — Construction will begin Monday on a project to resurface North Stratford Road from the West Broadway intersection to its junction with state Route 17. Crews also will add another left turn lane and another through lane at the intersection of Stratford and Valley Road.
Construction is expected to continue through late November. City engineer Richard Law said Thursday that traffic will be restricted in the construction zones, but the road won’t be closed.
“We’ll keep at least one lane of traffic open in both directions, similar to what we did last year,” Law said.
The city replaced water mains along the same section of Stratford in 2019, in preparation for resurfacing the road in 2020.
The total project cost is about $1.7 million. C&R Tractor & Landscaping, of Kelso, is the contractor.
The city’s project also includes improvements to the curbs and stormwater system. Curbs and sidewalks on the east side of the street will be moved to make room for two additional lanes of traffic.
The Stratford-Valley intersection will get a second left-turn-only lane and a second northbound through lane, Law said. The through lanes will go all the way to the end of the project, about 80 feet past the intersection of Stratford and Mart Road.
The traffic signals also will get an upgrade, with electronics improvements and new poles. Because the road is being widened, a new traffic light will be installed at the Stratford-Valley intersection.
Crosswalks will be reconfigured to make crossing easier, Law said.
Cheryl Schweizer can be reached via email at [email protected].
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