Will SR-138 become a six-lane freeway?

  • Nursing student Amanda Anderson has lived in the  the Neenach area for 22 years and has been in a bad accident. She thinks the improvements can make SR-138 safer. [photo by Patric Hedlund]

    Nursing student Amanda Anderson has lived in the the Neenach area for 22 years and has been in a bad accident. She thinks the improvements can make SR-138 safer. [photo by Patric Hedlund]

By Patric Hedlund

“We listened,” is the short message lead engineer Robert Blume most wanted to convey to those attending the public information meetings in Neenach and Antelope Acres on May 2 and 4. The subject was the proposed Northwest 138 Corridor Improvement Project between Interstate 5 and State Route 14.

A year earlier…(please see below to view full stories and photographs)

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Residents flocked to the May 2 Open House at Grace Chapel to review the updated engineering alternatives.

Nursing student Amanda Anderson has lived in the the Neenach area for 22 years and has been in a bad accident. She thinks the improvements can make SR-138 safer.

Some of the proposals included loops around Neenach and Antelope Acres (above) to avoid major changes to residents’ properties.

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This is part of the May 15, 2015 online edition of The Mountain Enterprise.

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