Small town life slips away

Let's face it, our rural, small-town atmosphere is slipping away. It's time to join the 21st century. Since we are bantering around new alternative solutions to the byway issue, I have a few ideas I would like to throw into the mix.

We could trade our SUVs in for air transports and simply fly over the traffic. Or, we could purchase a fleet of skyships that would hover over the city and drop us down at our respective destinations. Wow. How about a transporter chamber in every home? Let's plan for the future and dig a six-lane tunnel, and add underground parking, with elevators to reach the surface. What about a monorail system? We could park and ride, gliding gracefully and quietly to our destinations and let the trucks have the roads. Let's build a ferry and float the trucks past Sandpoint to reconnect. Oh, a big suspension bridge just offshore, that would be nice.

Those are just a few of my ideas. By the time Sandpoint residents make a decision on anything, my options will all be viable solutions.

I remember a time two decades ago when I first moved here. As you drove over the Long Bridge, you could see hundreds of little trees that someone had planted along each side. Now those trees are big. Go figure … I am no rocket scientist, but it seems that trees grow pretty well up here. My stars. Do you think we could do the same thing along the byway, blocking the highway from view, and muffle the noise? Nah, that won't work. It's too simple, and we have to make things complicated.

There has been enough rhetoric written on the byway to pave the streets of Sandpoint. Beam me up, Scotty, I can't handle the procrastination any longer.

LAURIE WADKINS

Priest River