[8][9] Several property owners along the proposed route of the bypass filed a lawsuit against the Washington State Highway Commission and argued the selected alignment would disturb wildlife.

The project was restarted with a transportation study from the Spokane Regional Council in 1993 and funded by the Pullman municipal government as part of their comprehensive plan.

[1]: 16 [11] A route development plan in 2007, funded by WSDOT, recommended the construction of a 6.89-mile-long (11.09 km) divided limited-access highway with a single at-grade intersection at Brayton Road.

[12] In early 2016, a bill was introduced in the Washington State Legislature to decommission the unbuilt highway by removing its designation, primarily to facilitate the expansion of the Pullman–Moscow Regional Airport runway per an agreement signed four years earlier.

[15] The following year, the Pullman city government proposed the construction of a southerly bypass connecting US 195 to SR 270 near Mary's Park.