Coulee Dam gets grant for safer school routes

 

Last updated 5/31/2023 at 3:14am



The city of Coulee Dam will get nearly $393,000 for upgrading crosswalks and adding “speed feedback” signs, flashing beacons, and more to improve the safety on routes to school.

The Safe Routes to School grant is funded through the Washington State Dept. of Transportation budget, signed earlier this month by Gov. Jay Inslee.

A project schedule indicates engineering will begin in October this year, with an estimated contract award date in May 2024.

The project includes installing a new crosswalk, pedestrian scale crossing illumination, rectangular rapid flashing beacons (RRFB) with audible pushbutton stations, speed feedback signs, school/playground 20 mph speed zone flashing beacon signs and curb ramps for wheelchair accessibility.

The intersection at Central Drive and Crest Drive will get an RRFB with a customizable voice message confirmation for crossing Crest to the school sidewalk. And “pedestrian illumination” is to replace existing street lighting.

At Crest and Camas another RRFB, a crosswalk, curb ramps and more pedestrian scale lighting are planned.

On River Drive (SR-155), a school zone beacon with a radar speed warning sign will be installed about 250 feet west of Crest Drive. Another one will go on River Drive between 11th and 12 streets.

On the other side of the bridge, on Columbia Avenue at Douglas Avenue the street will get and updated marked crosswalk with a curb ramp an RRFB, flashing “pedestrian ahead” warning sign about 40 north of Grant Avenue, and pedestrian illumination will replace existing street lights.

The total project cost is set at $392,886.

City Clerk Stefanie Bowden told the city council on Wednesday that the city had just learned the Grant would be funded.

 

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