Highway 2 study moving forward

Work is moving along on an environmental impact statement on the proposed widening of U.S. Highway 2 between Havre and Fort Belknap to four lanes.

"My goal right now, first of all, is to get the document done that meets the intent, but to get it done in substantially less time than 36 months," Mick Johnson, Great Falls district administrator for the Montana Department of Transportation, said today.

MDT has scheduled a meeting with David Evans and Associates, a Denver contractor, on April 23 to discuss issues like a timeline to complete the study and the issues the study should cover.

The study...