ITD improving pedestrian facilities

SANDPOINT — Work is under way to improve pedestrian facilities along U.S. highways 95 and 2, the Idaho Transportation Department has announced.

Americans With Disabilities Act-compliant pedestrian ramps are being constructed at numerous locations through the downtown core and on U.S. 2 at the intersections of Euclid, Boyer and Division avenues.

The work is scheduled to be complete by mid-September and pedestrian detours of less than a block will be in place in each work zone area. The contractor is working Monday through Friday, from 7 a.m. to 10 p.m. each day.

Work along U.S. 95 will also be done on Superior Street/First Avenue to Cedar Street and Fifth Ave., on Pine Street to First, and on Fifth between Larch and Cedar streets.

The project is one of six statewide that will improve pedestrian facilities on the state highway system, ITD said. The projects are being constructed using federal stimulus funding.

Paul Construction of Meridian is the contractor on the $519,000 project.