Yes, traffic is a problem, but $5M barely, if at all, converts maybe a mile of two lane road into four lanes. To meaningfully address traffic with construction takes a LOT more than $5M. That WOULD build a really nice community center that could be useful to the community for decades to come.
HURA has already spent Millions of dollars on Road "Infrastructure" in Hayden. They have converted government way, the ONE AND ONLY functional North-South thoroughfare through Hayden East of 95 into a cutesy, intentionally narrow and slow-moving, "small-town" main-street, with trees, wide sidewalks, park benches ,and center islands. Now the City Council has decided that Hayden should triple in size, and that Government Way should be redeveloped and packed with high density "Mixed Use" housing, as far as the eye can see. These are two irreconcilable visions. We cannot "FIX" traffic until we have a coherent vision of what it is we are trying to fix---That Actually conforms to the desires of the current residents. We are No Where Close.
Yes, traffic is a problem, but $5M barely, if at all, converts maybe a mile of two lane road into four lanes. To meaningfully address traffic with construction takes a LOT more than $5M. That WOULD build a really nice community center that could be useful to the community for decades to come.
HURA has already spent Millions of dollars on Road "Infrastructure" in Hayden. They have converted government way, the ONE AND ONLY functional North-South thoroughfare through Hayden East of 95 into a cutesy, intentionally narrow and slow-moving, "small-town" main-street, with trees, wide sidewalks, park benches ,and center islands. Now the City Council has decided that Hayden should triple in size, and that Government Way should be redeveloped and packed with high density "Mixed Use" housing, as far as the eye can see. These are two irreconcilable visions. We cannot "FIX" traffic until we have a coherent vision of what it is we are trying to fix---That Actually conforms to the desires of the current residents. We are No Where Close.