Bypass team updates commissioners

The U.S. 93 bypass project is on schedule and moving forward, project managers told Flathead County Commissioners on Tuesday.

Project managers from LHC Inc. and the Montana Department of Transportation met with commissioners on Tuesday to provide an update on the upcoming traffic restrictions near Glacier High School.

Starting Feb. 29, public access to Glacier will be the limited to the western entrance on Stillwater Road. The northern entrance on West Reserve Drive will be open for bus traffic only.

The Wolfpack Way entrance will be closed to all traffic.

The road closures are expected to last until March 12 while truckers haul 500 loads of pit-run gravel a day between LHC and the bypass construction site. The restrictions will be in effect 24 hours a day, seven days a week until the hauling is complete.

County commissioners had no questions for project managers on Tuesday.

“It’s all on schedule,” said Don Brummel, project manager at LHC.

Over the next few weeks, crews will begin pushing the softened mud away from the future roadway before laying down temporary road material in early March.

For more information on the bypass project, visit www.mdt.mt.gov/pubinvolve/kalispellbypass.