UPDATE: Whitman County has a year round permanent weight restriction of 17 tons on Hume Road. The Whitman County Sheriff’s Office will be patrolling the road issuing citations for overweight vehicles.
UPDATE: WSDOT mistakenly identified Hume Road as an alternate route around this construction zone. Agency officials have since realized that the county road should not be used as an alternate route because of Whitman County weight restrictions.
This summer’s major highway construction project that will cause significant delays between Pullman and Spokane starts on Tuesday.
The Washington State Department of Transportation is pouring a new concrete surface on U.S. Highway 195 between Cashup Flat North of Steptoe and the junction with State Route 271 South of Rosalia. Only one lane of traffic will be directed through the work zone via a traffic signal. Motorists can expect delays of up to 20 minutes. The delays are expected to be 24 hours a day seven days a week during the entire project which is scheduled to end in early October. Crews will be resurfacing 10 miles of the highway with new concrete.
The normal alternate route between Pullman and Spokane would be State Route 27 but motorists will see highway construction delays there as well. Crews are chip sealing SR27 North of Garfield. That work is expected to run through next month.