Site work and paving for a road / highway in Athol, Idaho. Completed plans call for site work for a road / highway; and for paving for a road / highway.

Question Deadline 06/18/2025 All questions concerning the procedures of this request for proposal, as well as all project specific questions shall be directed to Amanda LaMott at ALamott@LHTAC.org. No questions will be accepted by telephone. All questions will be responded to by e-mail, within two days of receipt of the question(s). This proposal will be for project development services for a BNSF grade separation project in Kootenai County The Brunner Road BNSF Grade Separation Project (Project) is located at the intersection of Lakes Highway District's Brunner Road and the BNSF Railway railroad corridor, which currently hosts 48 freight trips per day and 2 Amtrack passenger trips per day, totaling 50 daily train trips. It is projected that the number of freight trains on this corridor will increase to 105 trains per day by 2040. See Attachment 11 Section G; Idaho Statewide Rail Plan page 3-28 for details. The Brunner Road BNSF Grade Separation Project will realign Brunner Road to the south in order to minimize the bridge length over the railroad (reducing project costs) and to allow for offline construction of the bridge (keeping traffic operating at the existing crossing). This alignment shift will cause the existing intersection of Brunner Road with Diagonal and Clagstone Roads to shift to the south as well. The proposed intersection of the two roadways would be a roundabout, which maximizes the predominant movements of right turns onto eastbound Brunner Road and left turns onto southbound Diagonal Road and increases safety of the intersection. The Project will complete final and PS&E design and construction for the Brunner Road bridge over the railroad and the intersection of Brunner/Diagonal/Clagstone Roads. Figure 1 is a simple overview map. The Brunner Road BNSF Grade Separation Project (Project) proposes to construct a structure to grade separate Brunner Road and the BNSF railway. The alignment of Brunner Road will be redirected to reduce the skew with the railroad, which in turn shortens the proposed bridge. The proposed Project is at the intersection of Brunner Road and the BNSF railroad Kootenai Subdivision. An extreme skew angle (49 degrees) with the railroad is present, creating an unsafe condition due to poor intersection sight distance. The situation continues to deteriorate as traffic on the local road has increased with recent growth in the area. Despite the railroad intersection with Brunner being an extremely busy (50 trains a day, as reported in the grade crossing inventory sheet) double track with a signal, horn, and gates, vehicles have been documented bypassing the gates. Combining this with traffic backing up from the nearby intersection of Diagonal/Clagstone Roads with Brunner Road, there is a high risk of cars coming into conflict with trains moving at high speeds. With the realignment of Brunner Road, a roundabout will be installed at the intersection with Diagonal/Clagstone Road. The Project improvements will remove the possibility of vehicular accidents at the railroad, improve the performance of the Diagonal/Clagstone Roads intersection, provide more reliable travel times, reduce pollution due to less idling at the train crossing, and increase the viability of Diagonal Road as a connection to Highway 95.