If you live in or around Hayden, and wish to avoid the bumper -to bumper on US 95 in the morning or evening rush hours several alternatives are normally available - Ramsey (closed all summer) Government Way (effectively closed) and Atlas. Atlas seems to be ok now that the speeding earth-movers have abated their runs, until you get to the construction on Northwest Blvd. just shy of the main drag. Who gives the developers of Riverstone the right to back up traffic just so their huge trucks can get turn onto the road? Why can't they wait like anyone else? Or work at night? And how damn long does it take to put in some utilities and pave the damn street? It seems like every summer for the last few years someone will block off a main north-south arterial, spend the entire season messing around with it, only to do the same the next year. This year they've got them all blocked, except for the 5 mph stop and go on US95. Can't they take ONE at a time, fix it for the next 20 years, and stop fooling around? Sorry for the rant.

Enough

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