Palouse street project still possible this year

The West Whitman Street project may or may not still happen in Palouse this summer.

The city now awaits information before the process goes out to bid on the work, which would include replacing a 550-foot section of street and railroad tracks – with a new drainage system – as well as sidewalks, curb, gutter and lighting.

A meeting was held Aug. 12 with Munir Daud, Palouse city engineer; Mayor Michael Echanove; Kyle Dixon, clerk-treasurer; Paul Weber, rail engineer for Washington Department of Transportation, and Bob Westby, manager of WSDOT.

“They're within throwing a rock at getting the sched...