Best route for byway is the one selected

Hold everything! We can't build the Sand Creek Byway, There's a rope swing in need of saving and besides, A university in Washington says it would be better for us to build a $250 million, (not $25) western route. (As opposed to the $70 million Sand Creek route with less enviromental damage).

Of course, who cares that a western route would finish off the hiking/bridle and biking trails that the housing developments and "no trespassing" signs have started?

The guest opinion in the June 7 Bee is a page from the NICAN playbook.

Outsiders telling us what to do for our own good. The majority still doesn't count apparently.

In the June 5 Bee, a writer wondered why the "Florida" developers of the Seasons didn't come out against the byway. Because they have no right to.

They knew the byway was going in. They don't live here and will make a swooping, economic hit and run here and leave. Their clients, who can pay $400,000 and up, must like cars going by at 45 mph a few hundred yards away, glancing in on them. The same type who is willing to pay similar prices for a penthouse on top of the new Panhandle building so they can overlook the tops of the buildings downtown.

At least these new, expensive digs can share in the cost of our new emergency medical system and urban renewal taxing districts for poor old Sandpoint and it's now "blighted" neighborhoods.

LAWRENCE FURY

Sandpoint