PULLMAN, WA – The City of Pullman is planning to install a stoplight on South Grand Avenue at Center Street. Pullman City Council on Tuesday will consider applying for a Washington state grant to pay for most of the project. According to the staff report to council installing a stoplight at the intersection has been in the planning stages for years.

A 2016 study determined that there was enough traffic at Grand and Center to warrant a stoplight. Staff tells council the traffic signal will make the intersection safer. The project will include a crosswalk across Grand. Center is a major urban collector street from Grand up to Sunnyside Hill. The project is estimated to cost nearly two million dollars.

The city wants to ask the state for a 1.6 million dollar grant. If the funding comes through from Olympia the new stoplight would be installed in 2028. This project would bring the number of traffic signals on Grand through Pullman to nine.