https://bonnercountydailybee.com/news/2024/oct/18/itd-gathers-input-on-sagle-highway-plan/
"The proposed concept would create a four-lane divided highway from Lakeshore Drive to Dufort Road flanked by frontage roads on either side. A pair of interchanges would be installed at Brisboys and Dufort roads to connect locals with the main roadway, and a shared-use bike/walking path would run the length of the corridor.
"ITD is currently performing an environmental reevaluation of the area and is years away from constructing any kind of expansion. According to the department, current accident rates and congestion are driving a need for a change, along with anticipated growth and the traffic that comes with it.
Well, this one was out of left field! It would be great to have this new freeway extend south to meet I-90, but it's probably asking too much and deserving of a thread in Fictional Highways. But if it could help Sagle traffic in the long run, then so be it.
Why would Sagle get a freeway before Sandpoint?
Quote from: pderocco on October 22, 2024, 11:22:00 PMWhy would Sagle get a freeway before Sandpoint?
Sandpoint already has its bypass that seems to work fine.
Quote from: Bruce on October 22, 2024, 11:58:44 PMQuote from: pderocco on October 22, 2024, 11:22:00 PMWhy would Sagle get a freeway before Sandpoint?
Sandpoint already has its bypass that seems to work fine.
Not only does it already have a bypass, it's a relatively new bypass. Like the freeway north of Hayden, it was built within the last 15 years.
Now if they could do something about those miserable lights through Hayden...