Sullivan Road project will be open house topic

The city of Spokane Valley is holding a community meeting tonight about this summer’s Sullivan Road resurfacing project. The meeting is an open house for the project, showcasing maps and plans.

“People are of course very interested in what’s going on right in front of their property, and when,” said Craig Aldworth, project engineer. Aldworth will give a short presentation at 5:45 p.m. and then the floor will be open for questions.

Sullivan Road will be repaved from Mission Avenue to Sprague Avenue and the entire job is expected to run from July 1 to mid-September.

The Bonneville Power Administration is replacing poles along Sullivan Road prior to the paving project. Aldworth said the agency wanted to get its job done before peak power consumption times during hot summer months.

The project will have some impact on traffic once it gets going.

“During the daytime there will always be two lanes open going both north and south,” Aldworth said. “There will be some nighttime paving, too, and that will complicate traffic a bit more.”

The intersection of Mission and Sullivan is included in the project, which also adds some pedestrian ramps to sidewalks and fixes some stormwater drywells that have failed.

Traffic sensors – or induction loops as they are correctly called – will be replaced at some intersections as well.