Sand Creek route is only one that makes sense

As usual, Bordaneve and others respond with misleading answers after mis-reading something. The publisher of a newspaper is ignorant or uninformed just because he doesn't agree with you?

A listing of credentials/training/education in a field he claims professional standing in is not unreasonable.

It appears NICAN and related company, can keep their associates secret to avoid boycotts but byway supporters must divulge their friends and associates or have information from them dubbed rumor and hearsay. We don't have a formal group and some might want to avoid retaliation from the anti-byway camp.

All polls and the vote over the last decade doesn't seem to hold a candle to Bordenave's magnificent arguements.

What I said was: You constantly wave an environmental law under our noses and your only concern is the byway. If you truly lived up to your name: North Idaho Community Action Network, you'd have expressed something concerning the Dover Bay wetland fill-in and the ruining of the Bayview spawning beds.

You poo-poo the National Highway Administration highway safety standards the byway complies with.

What does mention by our California "visitor's" governor and the shuttle disaster have to do with the price of tea in China?

Finally. Visit the ITD office and see the front page of a Sandpoint New Bulletin from the mid-1950s with its rendering of a bypass nearly identical to the current design. No western route in sight, folks.

LAWRENCE FURY

Sandpoint

The 'Real' Sandpoint Citizens for the

Sand Creek Byway

Editor's note: Bee Publisher David Keyes has never claimed to have a degree in engineering or any field that would give him technical expertise on the pros and cons of a tunnel, a westside route, a catapult or the Sand Creek Byway options. His opinions are his own and are contained only on the Opinion page of the Bee.

He continues to believe the Sand Creek Byway option is the only viable option to remove unwanted truck traffic out of Sandpoint on Highway 95. The state already owns the property for the Sand Creek Byway. There has been no funding or engineering for any other byway option and the chances of the state of Idaho funding more studies while attempting to preserve the money already allocated to the Sand Creek Byway is remote.

The Boise area would appreciate releasing the funds currently set aside for the byway.