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When a Missoula road became a highway – “It’s close to gridlock.”

Reserve St. gridlock

Two hours after the bridge’s un-grand opening, Taylor talked to Jim Weaver of the Montana Highway Department, who told her the two-lane bridge “probably will be inadequate in the near future.”

“I guess you could say it’s obsolete,” Weaver said.

Now jump over a bunch of Reserve Street developments to 1994. The highway department is now called the Montana Department of Transportation, but Weaver is still its Missoula district engineer. Cars are backing up for a mile north and south of Mullan Road at rush hour.

“It’s close to gridlock,” Weaver told the Missoulian’s Michael Downs. “It’s the worst congestion I’ve ever seen in Missoula.”

 

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