NICAN's rhetoric fails does not include facts

Regarding Teree Taylor's letter to the editor, I, too, am amused, but at the observations stated in your letter. First off, how will the byway cause a loss of 260 jobs? The fact is, Job Service (Idaho Labor and Commerce) has a surplus of jobs available and no one to fill them.

If you are concerned about the downtown area and the lack of dollars generated, then you might look to Wal-Mart, Home Depot and the growing number of businesses in the downtown area that are real estate offices.

And lastly, you describe the byway as a potential "noisy elevated freeway." Sounds to me like it would be an improvement over the noisy, congested, exhaust-polluted, smelly First Avenue that we now have.

Maybe you have something here … Whatever will the chip trucks, 16-wheelers and logging truckers do if they can't cruise around through Sandpoint? If you would take the time to ask them, you might find that the trek through Sandpoint is a nightmare, for them and for us. To a trucker extra time is money lost, and we as consumers pay the price. They do not got through Sandpoint to shop downtown.

Since you apparently represent NICAN, you might give us a break and spare us future needless inane rhetoric.

LAURIE WADKINS

Priest River