City of East Wenatchee
5th Street NE Safety and Multimodal Improvements
N Baker Ave to N Kentucky Ave
TIB Award Amount
$2,500,000
Region: Northeast   |   Legislative District: 12   |   Length: 1.30 mi. FY 2025 Urban Arterial Program (UAP)

Existing Conditions

5th Street NE as a vital east-west connection for residents. Link Transit Routes and three schools are directly accessed from 5th Street NE. An additional school, two parks and the commercial business district are all within a three block radius of this corridor. The City has recently built 4650 lf of urban and SRTS funded improvements on 5th St. This has left an 850ft and a 1300ft gap in an otherwise continuous multimodal corridor, including the Eastmont Ave intersection performing at LOS F and with a higher rate of crashes than other comparable intersections.

Project Funding

  TIB Funds Local Funds Total Costs
Design 384,615 76,181 460,796
Right of Way 0 0 0
Construction 2,115,385 418,994 2,534,379
Project Totals $2,500,000 $495,175 $2,995,175

Local Match

TIB Participation Local Match Minimum Local Match
83.5% 16.5% 15%

Summary of Improvements

Description of Improvements

This project includes a traffic study to evaluate lowering the speed limit, filling in the remaining gaps in multimodal improvements, and finishing the corridor with additional traffic calming elements to effectively manage speeds. A signal is being proposed at Eastmont.