Moses Lake council authorizes bid solicitation for downtown chip‑seal restriping project

City staff presented a 2025 downtown chip‑seal and restriping project and the Moses Lake City Council authorized staff to solicit bids to advertise the work following a study‑session presentation and public review.

The project, which staff said was competitive for a TIB (Transportation Improvement Board) grant of roughly $1 million, proposes chip sealing selected downtown streets and reconfiguring striping to convert several four‑lane segments to three lanes, add turn pockets, increase angled and parallel parking where feasible, and install bike lanes or sharrows to fill missing links. Staff said the TIB funds would offset roughly 80% of this year’s pavement preservation work.

Levi, a city staff presenter, said the project targets downtown streets including Third Avenue, Hill Street and portions of Willow and Wheeler roads and is modeled on a previous chip‑seal effort from 2009. “We’re essentially doing that project again,” Levi said. He described the traffic volumes used in the grant application (for example, about 7,000 average daily trips on sections of Third Avenue and about 10,000 on parts of Wheeler)…