Interstate 90 interchanges to be repaved
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MOSES LAKE — Work is scheduled to start sometime in April on a Washington State Department of Transportation project to repave six traffic interchanges - on-ramps and off-ramps - along Interstate 90 between Quincy and Warden.
Jeff Deal, WSDOT engineer on the project, wrote in an email to the Herald that most work along I-90 in Grant County would be the interchange repaving.
“The tentative start date (is) between mid-to-late April,” Deal wrote. “However, we do not have an approved schedule.”
The on-ramps and off-ramps scheduled for paving are Silica Road, Adams Road and Dodson Road between Quincy and Moses Lake, and Road O, Road Q and Road U between Moses Lake and Warden.
“All ramps at these interchanges are included in the work,” Deal wrote.
“There will be detours in place for each set of ramps in either the eastbound or westbound direction of travel,” he wrote. “These detours will utilize the adjacent ramps, much like what was in place last year.”
The ramps at Hansen Road and Hiawatha Road, among others, were repaved in 2022 as part of the project to repave a section of I-90 through Grant County. During that project, drivers were detoured to the nearest interchange when a ramp was closed.
The ramp repaving is the major project along I-90 through Grant County in 2023, according to the WSDOT website. But drivers will see - and be affected by, at least a little - the preparation for a much bigger project beginning in 2024. Construction will begin on a three-year project to rebuild the deck of the Vantage Bridge.
There is a major I-90 project planned for Adams County, where both eastbound and westbound lanes will be repaved from Ritzville east to Tokio.
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