Traffic mess was for our own good?

Did anyone get the convoluted ITD Barbara Babic explanation in the Bee as to why the removal of some guardrails and replacing them with jersey barriers could not be done at night and thus easily eliminate the entire traffic snarls all day?

Apparently, it is the city’s fault. Also the 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. self-imposed work times is set because “much of the work is within high density neighborhoods and business areas.”  OK. This reasoning somewhat escapes me here. Daily pounding along the waterfront and high-speed hauling of thousands of trucks through Sandpoint (when we were told for years in many public meetings and hearings that would never happen) is not defined as loud work in dense use areas, but pulling the guard rails and placing jersey barriers out at the far south end of town is? And perhaps BB can please define to us how the idling of trucks and cars for hours through the entire length of town for days at a time is also not a high level of disruption and noise in dense neighborhoods and business areas? 

This work could have easily been done at night and would have resulted in none of the disruptions that we have seen for the last couple of days. Or at the very least, how hard would it have been to notify the community that these kind of delays would occur for “X” number of days? 

But I guess we will continue to believe what BB has to say because that is what all of us good sheeple are told to believe, and apparently spin press releases is all the information that we are ever going to get. 

Bernie Maddoff should have had someone like this as a press manager. With spin like this he would have been able to scam $100 billion and would probably still be free and clear. 

PIERRE BORDENAVE

Sandpoint