Contract awarded for I-64 widening project

BARBOURSVILLE, W.Va. — A project designed to relieve congestion on Interstate 64 in Cabell County is scheduled to begin next summer after a construction bid was awarded this week.

Nitro-based Triton Construction will be paid $71.7 million to add four additional lanes of traffic from Merritts Creek to Barboursville, which is approximately six miles. It’s a design-build project.

“This widening project along that stretch of I-64 is an important safety project for us,” state Transportation Secretary Byrd White said in a news release. “It will really open that area up and help mitigate the congestion that has been present there for years.”

White told state lawmakers earlier this week 80 percent of the work will be paid for with federal funds. The project was originally supposed to be financed with funds from the first bond sale of the Roads to Prosperity program but was moved to a federal project.

The scope of the work will add two lanes of traffic to the existing two lanes both east and westbound. The project also includes the replacement of five sets of overpass bridges.

Work is scheduled to begin next summer and finish up two years later in the summer of 2022.





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