Ah, Summer and the Traffic isn't Easy....

Well, the tourist are here, or at
least some of them. Not just on
the roads but in the stores.

And of course the good town of
Sandpoint has decided this is the
month to do their yearly redo of
Boyer Avenue. For those who don't
live here, that is one of the main streets
of Sandpoint, that gets you from Sandpoint
to Ponderay, without being on the highway.
One that we locals use heavily.

So we go from,"we don't need no stinking by-pass"
to dirty up our view of Sandcreek ...to stinking up
the town with the fumes of the
semi-trucks that are inching thru the town,
with their smokestacks spilling out the diesel
flavor of choice. And the gas cars doing their
bits as well. And saying nothing of the
fumes of the drivers and the road rage is
already starting at the Chamber of Commerce
area of 95.

That is where the road narrows
down to one lane for about 100 feet. But
there is nothing to tell the people at the
light by Safeway. So there it is, the fight
to get into the one lane.

Then there are the locals who have decided,
that they can speed up at that point
and get ahead of the line ...thus gaining themselves
at least half of a second on the road.

Of course,that is where the road rage really starts.
As the locals who see that 7-B pushing
in on them, refuse to let the speeding
idiot in.. they will show them... And then
the ones who were not chicken, show
that is where the fender benders came in.

Ah, summer and the traffic isn't easy....