8 big road projects to snarl Lake City area traffic

It might take a little patience this summer when going to the lake.

Eight big road projects in and around Coeur d’Alene are expected to snarl traffic for the next several months, transportation officials said Wednesday.

Reconstruction of Interstate 90 through Coeur d’Alene is the largest of the projects. That will involve closing one side of the freeway for work and putting one lane of traffic in each direction using the other side.

The two-year project will be from Ninth to Sherman avenues this year and from Northwest Boulevard to Ninth in 2018.

While that is sure to cause backups, the seven other projects are also going to have major impacts on drivers.

“It will be a few months of orange barrel derby,” said Reed Hollinshead, a spokesman for the Idaho Transportation Department/ Mike Prager , SR. More here.