Date:
Thursday, April 15, 2010
Contact:
Al Gilson, Communications Manager
WSDOT Eastern Region
2714 N. Mayfair
Spokane, WA 99207
(509) 324-6015
gilsona@wsdot.wa.gov
On Monday, April 19, 2010, work will get underway on a new Washington State Patrol Port of Entry facility on Interstate 90 at the Washington/Idaho border. This new facility will be built about one half mile west of the current port of entry.
The new facility includes a new weigh station building and scales, a fully enclosed vehicle inspection building, and new “weigh in motion” scales on the Interstate 90 westbound lanes.
The weigh in motion system is a new addition to the port of entry. Trucks equipped with special transponders, and registered with the state, will be weighed by scales installed under the freeway pavement. If given the “green light” these trucks won’t have to slow down or stop at the stationary scales at the port building. This feature will help keep traffic moving more efficiently by reducing the number of slow moving trucks entering the freeway from the scale. Trucks without transponders or overweight trucks will be directed to exit to the weigh station.
The relocation of the scale facility to the west also will remove the truck traffic from the Idaho Road interchange area.
Most of the work will not affect freeway through traffic, although motorists should be alert for trucks entering and exiting the roadway to and from the construction site. However, later this summer, construction of the weigh in motion system in the westbound through lanes will require westbound I-90 to be reduced to one through lane for several days. That work will cause some congestion on westbound I-90.
Selland Construction of Wenatchee is the prime contractor on the job with a construction bid of $6,704,332. The work should take about 18 months to complete. The Washington State Department of Transportation builds the weigh station facilities for the Washington State Patrol.
For more information on the project, along with weekly traffic and construction details, you can go to the web site at: www.wsdot.wa.gov/projects/i90/spokanepoe .
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