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ITD: Highway 95 Bottleneck ‘Stupidity’

Item: Garwood-to-Sagle freeway comes with a bottleneck: Two-lane portion at end would stretch two miles/Betsy Russell, SR

More Info: The Idaho Transportation Board on Thursday reviewed an Idaho attorney general’s opinion that found that the board can’t adjust the project’s southern boundary without specific authorization from the Legislature. State Rep. Frank Henderson, R-Post Falls, proposed such legislation this year, but it died in an end-of-session tiff between the House and the Senate. “This is something we really messed up on and the Legislature messed up on,” said ITD board member Bruce Sweeney, “and we need to resurrect this. … It’s just stupidity, is what it is.”

Question: Who's to blame for a 'stupidity' that leaves a two-mile stretch of Highway 95 as a two-lane road: the Legislature only, District 3 reps only, or both?



D.F. Oliveria
D.F. (Dave) Oliveria joined The Spokesman-Review in 1984. He currently is a columnist and compiles the Huckleberries Online blog and writes about North Idaho in his Huckleberries column.

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