The Sandpoint Public Works Committee has unanimously agreed to hold a special meeting this fall to discuss digging a 2,250-foot tunnel for U.S. 95 beneath the town. The tunnel is an alternative to a proposal to route the highway around the town, which some say is dangerous and will harm downtown Sandpoint’s waterfront ambiance. Both projects are intended to relieve traffic congestion. “Most of (the tunnel) is hidden from sight and that’s the beauty of it,” Steve Potter, a member of Citizens for the Sandpoint Tunnel, recently told the city’s Public Works Committee.

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Question: With recent cutbacks in regular Idaho road projects and decades of talk about the Sandpoint bypass to date, is this worth discussing?

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