MOSCOW, ID – The final season of construction on the long planned for project to make U.S. Highway 95 safer South of Moscow will begin soon.
The Idaho Transportation Department has announced that crews will restart work on the project this week. Workers are building a new safer, flatter, straighter and wider four lane segment of US95 South of Moscow over Paradise Ridge. Five of the six miles of new highway are complete. This season’s work will be on the South end at Reisenauer Hill. There will be one lane of traffic open in both directions through the work zone with a reduced speed limit of 45 MPH.

ITD expects to have traffic on the Northern section of the new highway this summer. The entire project is scheduled to be complete by the end of this year. Work began in 2022 and was initially scheduled to be completed last fall. The old US95 segment South of Moscow will be turned over to Latah County.
The roughly 60 million dollar project was first announced by ITD last century. The work initially proposed in 1999 was delayed for years by court challenges from a group of local environmentalists called the Paradise Ridge Defense Coalition. The coalition fought the safety improvements to preserve the native Palouse prairie.