Transportation Commission awards $23 million in highway contracts in March

Motorists will soon have another way to get into Gillette from the north.

The Wyoming Transportation Commission awarded a $12 million contract to Border States Paving Inc., of Fargo, North Dakota, to extend Garner Lake Road in northern Gillette to WYO 59 in Campbell County. The commission awarded that and six other contracts totaling $23 million during its March meeting.

The Wyoming Department of Transportation decided to extend Garner Lake Road following public input concerning the realignment of a section of WYO 59 because of coal mining activities. The public asked WYDOT to extend Garner Lake Road so there would be another northern access into Gillette.

Crews will also build a new bridge over the BNSF railroad in that area as part of the project. The contract completion date for the project is June 30, 2019.

Other contracts the commission awarded included road resurfacing, traffic signal installation and landscape work.

Knife River, of Cheyenne, was the low bidder on a $5 million 10-mile pavement resurfacing and widening project on US 287 between Rawlins and Muddy Gap in Carbon County. The contract calls for the addition of a passing lane in each direction. 

Crews will also do bridge resurfacing work. WYDOT is paying for the US 287 work with 10-cent-fuel-tax revenue. The contract completion date is June 30, 2019.

H-K Contractors, of Idaho Falls, Idaho, won a $3.4 million contract for a road resurfacing contract on 8 miles of WYO 390 between Wilson and Teton National Park in Teton County.

Crews will do the road work at night, so there will be minimal traffic disruptions. The contract completion date is Oct. 31, 2018.

The commission awarded Mountain Construction Co., of Lovell, a $1.7 million contract for road resurfacing and drainage work on 4 miles of WYO 31 between Manderson and Hyattville in Big Horn County.

WYDOT is paying for the US 287 work with 10-cent-fuel-tax revenue. The contract completion date is Oct. 31, 2018.

The commission also awarded contracts for:

• $284,969 to Knife River to pave 1 mile of Industrial Park Avenue in Torrington in Goshen County by Sept. 30, 2018;
• $224,917 to Casper Electric Inc., of Casper, to install a new traffic signal at the intersection of Hat Six Road and US 26 in Casper in Natrona County by Sept. 30, 2018; and
• $133,460 to S&L Industrial, of Cowley, for landscaping an irrigation work on US 189 in LaBarge in Lincoln County by Oct. 31, 2018.

For additional information about this news release, contact Aimee Inama, senior Public Affairs specialist, at (307) 777-4013.