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Airport Road tops county project list, again

For the second straight year, a rebuild of Colfax Airport Road tops Whitman County’s list of construction projects.

Public Works Director Mark Storey unveiled the $5.3 million 2012 construction plan Monday.

The plan for the $3.5 million Colfax Airport Road project is to widen the road, create shoulders, eliminate some of the road’s tight curves and better angle its slopes.

“We have great expectations to do that next year,” said Storey.

Colfax Airport Road, a major thoroughfare for east-west WSU traffic, was originally slated to be rebuilt this year, but the owner of land on the north side of t...

 

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