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The Senate, after a rather long delay, has voted in favor of two amendments to HB 286: One from Sens. Shawn Keough, R-Sandpoint, and Joyce Broadsword, R-Sagle, to add language clarifying the north end of the GARVEE-bond funded Garwood-to-Sagle project (the bill originally specified the south end of the project, eliminating what otherwise would have been a two-mile gap of two-lane road between four-lane stretches); and one from Sen. Bart Davis, R-Idaho Falls, to add in a 26-mile stretch of U.S. 20 in eastern Idaho near the Idaho National Laboratory. Davis told the Senate, “It’s a difficult stretch of road. … It’s to emphasize the safety need that exists in this corridor.” Sen. Elliot Werk, D-Boise, spoke against the amendment. “That stretch of road … probably needs work, but so do hundreds of stretches of road in our state,” he said.
Betsy Z. Russell covers Idaho news from The Spokesman-Review's bureau in Boise.
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