Residents want four-lane road from Havre to Harlem

Saturday morning, Havre resident Pam Harada pleaded with the Montana Department of Transportation and the Federal Highway Administration to go ahead with a project to transform 40 miles of U.S. Highway 2 from two lanes to four. The MDT will announce the fate of the project on Friday.

"I think our area desperately needs four lanes," Harada told the MDT. "Do not throw away the Hi-Line."

Harada was joined by more than 40 people residents, state senators and county commissioners in a forum hosted by the MDT at the Triangle Telephone Cooperative in Havre. Most were there to support the construction...