Maintenance a priority for Palouse regional five-year

Transportation officials from around the area gathered to pinpoint road project priorities for a five-year-plan at a meeting of the Palouse Regional Transportation Plan Organization (PRTPO), May 12.

A major focus should be the ongoing maintenance and preservation of existing Whitman County roads, said county public works director Mark Storey in a later interview.

COAST, Pullman public works director, Moscow city engineer, SWEDA officials, the mayor of Malden and two Whitman County commissioners were in attendance to give suggestions.

PRTPO, a quad-county, state-funded committee, was completing...