Consultants: Wider U.S. 2 would create few economic benefits

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The consultant studying the economic impact of widening U.S. Highway 2 between Havre and Fort Belknap said he hasn't found any businesses that would be helped by widening the highway.

"There would be little benefit to widening U.S. 2," Jeff Ang-Olson of ITC said. "Little is being held back by the condition of U.S. 2 now."

ITC is conducting the economic portion of an environmental impact statement on the potential widening of Highway 2. Ang-Olson and Debra Perkins-Smith of David Evans and Associates, the project leader for the EIS, were the fea...