Guardrails approved for Endicott-St. John Road

Whitman County commissioners Monday approved a list of road safety work to be paid for with $750,000 from the Fixing America's Surface Transportation Act of 2015.

The list includes guardrails on a stretch of the Endicott-St. John Road and signage on 30 other county roads.

Signs will include chevrons – square yellow signs with black pointers – and other curve warnings.

Now approved, the project list will go out for bids, to be opened Dec. 5, with work planned for early next year.

To decide on the list, Mark Storey, public works director, and staff reviewed a Lidar study – a type of remote sensi...