Indian Trail overloaded

Sat., May 9, 2015

I am a resident of the Indian Trail area, and I strongly oppose an additional 96-unit/196-parking lot apartment, high-density housing unit on Indian Trail Road (Lusitano and Selkirk are already there).

My rationale for this is the embarrassing failure that was Indian Trail Improvement project. Phase 1: Thousands of taxpayer dollars spent to turn a poorly lit two-lane road without sidewalks into a poorly lit two-lane road with sidewalks.

It would be the height of ignorance to load more traffic onto this inadequate road no matter what the political pressure might dictate. As it is, on the first snow day of the year and on subsequent winter days, traffic backs up from Francis Avenue to Ridgecrest Avenue during daily commutes.

Indian Trail Road, our only ingress/egress, cannot support any more high-density construction.

Richard Jewell

Spokane

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