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Think safety, improve two-lane Highway 2

The rebuilding of U.S. Highway 2 from Havre to Harlem is a safety issue not an economic issue. Since Sen. Kitzenberg of Glasgow succeeded in stopping all reconstruction on this section of highway, several residents of Blaine County and elsewhere have been killed and seriously injured due to the present conditions of the highway. To ask the highway department for further study and delay of the 10-mile section planned for bid letting in 2010 is irresponsible. The Havre-to-Harlem stretch of Highway 2 has some of the oldest and most dangerous, as well as most traveled, portions of Highway 2 in Montana. The city councils and county commissioners from Blaine and Hill counties should be working, not to stop construction, but to prioritize and move forward with reconstruction of the rest of this road that has no shoulders, steep ditches and way too many narrow bridges. Wouldn't it be nice to have a nice wide highway like between Big Sandy and Loma? That highway is more than twice as wide as much of this section of Highway 2.And by the way, there is no money to make this a four-lane road and there will never be. So let's move forward with building an improved two-lane highway instead of doing nothing. Maybe it will save you or someone you knows life. Richard Cronk Chinook

 

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