Road work ahead

COEUR d'ALENE - Crews will begin Monday updating signs on Interstate 90 from the Washington border to Fourth of July Pass, for the next five weeks.

Crews will remove old signs, place new sign posts and sign faces and clean up the highway median in this stretch of road.

Initially, work will extend from mileposts 15-29 and will be performed between 6 a.m. and 6 p.m. weekdays. Around mid-May, the contractor will switch to overnight work (7 p.m. to 6 a.m.) for repairs between mileposts 0 to 15. In all, more than 13,000 square feet of signage will be repaired or replaced.

Work is slated to finish in early June. During this time, one lane will be closed for 2 to 3 miles at a time.

The speed limit will be 55 mph in the work zone, and a truck-width limit will be set at 14 feet.

Specialty Construction, of Meridian, is the contractor on the $1.3 million project.