New Highway 2 study will look at economic impacts

Larry Kline

Havre Daily News

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A study of a section of U.S. Highway 2 in eastern Montana will do something that a study of a section near Havre a few years ago did not: examine the economic conditions along the entire east-west corridor.

Montana Department of Transportation director Jim Lynch said the department will study the feasiblity of building four lanes on U.S. Highway 2 from Culbertson to the North Dakota state line, and on a section of Montana Highway 16 north from Culbertson to the Canadian border.

“It will take into account all o...