A reality based independent journal of observation & analysis, serving the Flathead Valley & Montana since 2006. © James Conner.
When a construction project brings $35 million into the community, the bid winning contractors and politicians supporting the project like to hold a little ceremony to break ground and call attention to all that money. That’s what happened today near Glacier High School. Ground was broken, again, for another bout of building the westside Kalispell bypass.
Dillon Tabish’s story for the Flathead Beacon does not report how many voluntarily attended the ceremony. The absence of that number probably indicates there may have been an absence of a voluntary audience. So does the absence of a wide photograph of the event.
I’m not looking forward to this highway construction. For those of us living west of the bypass, there will be blocked roads, bumpy detours, long waits, and inconvenience aplenty. That’s nothing to celebrate, and I could have done without the bypass caucus’ publicity stunt.