Work starts on Reserve Drive South
<p>A Caterpillar 627E Motor Scraper is silhouetted against a stormy sky Thursday morning at the Hutton Ranch Connector or Reserve Drive South project in Kalispell.</p>
Work started this week on the Hutton Ranch Connector or Reserve Drive South project.
The Montana Department of Transportation awarded a $2.998 million contract for the project to LHC Inc. of Kalispell in October.
The Reserve Drive South project, which had an initial engineer’s estimate of $3.538 million, will build a new road connecting Hutton Ranch Road and West Reserve Drive.
The new road will run east of the Home Depot/Target shopping center and Signature Theaters.
The construction project is scheduled to be completed in 2012.