Poe Asphalt lands Colfax Highway 195 Main contract

Aerial photos of Main Street Colfax were on display April 23 at the Department of Transportation open house in Colfax to inform residents of the Highway 195 project which will start in June.

Poe Asphalt Paving of Clarkston was awarded the contract for the Main Street grinding and resurfacing project on Main Street in Colfax. The Poe bid was $2,028,765.

The contract includes resurfacing of Hwy. 195 through Colfax and north to the Dry Creek Road intersection.

Poe Asphalt was also the successful bidder on the first Highway 195 project which is expected to begin in mid-May.

The work will be from the Highway 27 intersection south of Pullman to the Babbitt Road intersection north of Landfill Road. Poe landed the contract with a bid of $1,842,716.

The project is expected to take seven weeks to complete.

Details of the Colfax segment of 195 work were outlined last Thursday in a Department of Transportation open house at the Public Service Building in Colfax.

Much of the work on grinding and repaving Main Street through Colfax will be done during low traffic night shifts, according to the state Department of Transportation engineers that hosted an open house. Work on the Colfax segment of the job is scheduled to start some time after June 1 but no later than June 15.

The actual start time between those two dates will be left up to the contractor.

Timing on the project segment in Colfax has been charted for two segments of Main Street. North Main, from Harrison to the Highway 26 intersection, has been scheduled for work 24 hours a day.

According to the plan posted yesterday, the North Main segment will be split with crews working on two lanes and two-way traffic on the other side. After work is finished on one side, the two-way traffic will be switched to the opposite side.

The plan calls for traffic to be detoured to the Highway 26 spur bridge. Flagging crews will be stationed to assist traffic through the intersection of Highway 26 and 195 next to the Chevron Station

In downtown Colfax, from Cooper north to Harrison, the work is from 6 p.m. to 6 a.m. The plan is to shut the project down during downtown business hours in Colfax and do the work at night when traffic flow is less.

Engineers yesterday also reported the control system for the three traffic lights in downtown Colfax will be switched to camera sensors. Traffic at the intersections is now controlled by sub-surface magnetic cable loops which can sense when a vehicle approaches from a side street and trigger a change in the traffic lights.

The loops will be taken out during the grind down of the street surface.

A new sidewalk is scheduled to be installed on the west side of North Main, and new ADA ramps have been slated to be installed at intersections at 22 designated locations along Main Street, according to aerial photos of the Main Street zone.

Poe Asphalt Paving of Clarkston was awarded the contract for the Main Street grinding and resurfacing project on Main Street in Colfax. The Poe bid was $2,028,765.

The contract includes resurfacing of Hwy. 195 through Colfax and north to the Dry Creek Road intersection.

Poe Asphalt was also the successful bidder on the first Highway 195 project which is expected to begin in mid-May.

The work will be from the Highway 27 intersection south of Pullman to the Babbitt Road intersection north of Landfill Road. Poe landed the contract with a bid of $1,842,716.

The project is expected to take seven weeks to complete.

Details of the Colfax segment of 195 work were outlined last Thursday in a Department of Transportation open house at the Public Service Building in Colfax.

Much of the work on grinding and repaving Main Street through Colfax will be done during low traffic night shifts, according to the state Department of Transportation engineers that hosted an open house. Work on the Colfax segment of the job is scheduled to start some time after June 1 but no later than June 15.

The actual start time between those two dates will be left up to the contractor.

Timing on the project segment in Colfax has been charted for two segments of Main Street. North Main, from Harrison to the Highway 26 intersection, has been scheduled for work 24 hours a day.

According to the plan posted yesterday, the North Main segment will be split with crews working on two lanes and two-way traffic on the other side. After work is finished on one side, the two-way traffic will be switched to the opposite side.

The plan calls for traffic to be detoured to the Highway 26 spur bridge. Flagging crews will be stationed to assist traffic through the intersection of Highway 26 and 195 next to the Chevron Station

In downtown Colfax, from Cooper north to Harrison, the work is from 6 p.m. to 6 a.m. The plan is to shut the project down during downtown business hours in Colfax and do the work at night when traffic flow is less.

Engineers yesterday also reported the control system for the three traffic lights in downtown Colfax will be switched to camera sensors. Traffic at the intersections is now controlled by sub-surface magnetic cable loops which can sense when a vehicle approaches from a side street and trigger a change in the traffic lights.

The loops will be taken out during the grind down of the street surface.

A new sidewalk is scheduled to be installed on the west side of North Main, and new ADA ramps have been slated to be installed at intersections at 22 designated locations along Main Street, according to aerial photos of the Main Street zone.