Section of Columbia Way to close next week for rail work

QUINCY — The railroad crossing on Columbia Way near the intersection with Division Street East will be closed to traffic beginning Monday. The closure is projected to last through early December. 

Quincy City Council members awarded a contract to Hurst Construction, Wenatchee, for the project at the regular meeting Tuesday. The contract cost is about $1.57 million.  

Quincy City Administrator Pat Haley said the crossing has been a source of traffic concerns. 

“We intended to have this project done by now, but Burlington Northern required their own personnel for traffic control and this is when they were scheduled,” Haley wrote in response to an email from the Columbia Basin Herald.  

It’s the first phase of a multi-phase project along Columbia Way. Construction crews will be installing three steel pipes under the railroad tracks, along with repaving the sections of the road affected by the construction. 

The second phase will replace an existing culvert with the installation of five steel pipes under the irrigation canal at M Street Northeast and Road O Northwest. That contract also was awarded Tuesday to Rudnick & Sons, Wenatchee. The total contract cost is $971,390. 

Repairs are scheduled for this week on the bridge at M Street Northeast and Road O Northwest, where an unknown vehicle broke the railing. The road has been closed since the damage was discovered last week.  

“The bridge railing is damaged – again – which usually happens about twice a year,” Haley wrote. 

There’s a tight turning radius for trucks at the intersection, Haley wrote.  

“This is why we are planning to widen the bridge in 2025,” he wrote.  

    A railroad crossing on Columbia Way will be closed for about two months while construction crews install pipes under the railroad tracks.