MDT: Extra sidewalk work needed in First Street project

A new wrinkle about sidewalks in the planned rebuilding of First Street may cause some additional work for the Montana Department of Transportation. But Mick Johnson, MDT's Great Falls District administrator, said it shouldn't affect the duration of the project or increase problems in accessing businesses.

"What we've discovered is we have some approaches where we have to do approach work," he said in an interview Wednesday, adding that if the department has to start tearing out sidewalks it is a major change in the scope of the project.

MDT plans to start work on rebuilding First Street, as U...