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Public Works announces roughly $2.5 million FHWA Safe Streets grant for sidewalks, intersections and speed‑feedback signs
Summary
Walla Walla County Public Works told commissioners it secured about $2.5 million from FHWA's Safe Streets for All program to support sidewalk and bike‑lane work, intersection reconfiguration and speed‑feedback signage on several county corridors; the department will return with grant agreement details and project numbers.
Dan Mack, Public Works director, updated the Walla Walla County Board of Commissioners on Jan. 12 about planned construction projects and funding outcomes. He said the county was the only Washington recipient awarded a large combined FHWA Safe Streets for All grant in the latest round — approximately $2.5 million — to support multiple projects.
Mack and engineer Joel Dickerson said the grant will fund a combination of improvements: sidewalk and bike‑lane work along Wallula Avenue; reconfiguration of the Cottonwood, Powerline and Langdon intersections; project support for Mjolnir Road segments in Mission and Bussel; and speed feedback signs and some striping and sidewalk work on Old Highway 12 through Tusche and Loudoun. The department also applied for smaller study grants and local‑road funding for corridor studies.
The county must sign a grant agreement and awaits FHWA’s final award documents. Once the agreement is executed, Public Works will return to the board with project budgets and county road project numbers to move into design and construction phases.
Mack also reported ongoing design work for Scenic Loop Bridge and routine maintenance teams preparing for seasonal work. Public Works staff confirmed the county is participating with the City of Walla Walla on a federal‑funded corridor study for School Avenue; the city secured federal funding to underwrite the study and the county is providing a local match.
Commissioners praised the department’s grant work and asked staff to return with the formal grant agreement and recommended project allocations after federal conditions are finalized.
