Road work slows returns to WSU

Students begin returning to Washington State University this weekend, and construction on Highway 195 from Colfax south toward Pullman can be expected to slow their migration back to campus.

“I think we’re just going to be messed up for rush week and the early kids,” Sgt. Brad Hudson of the Washington State Patrol’s Colfax detachment.

Crews from Central Washington Asphalt at Moses Lake have been on the job for the past two weeks for the project which included traffic delays as work advanced on more than eight miles of the project between Colfax and Pullman.

Motorists have logged informal repor...