" $100k for a pedestrian bridge? That is funny. Try $2-4 million, and then put in fencing to corral them to use the thing. How would you like to have to go out of your way just because people moving more quickly in cars can't take a moment to allow you to cross? "

" When the time comes to build a new high school, get it ouside of town. Nobody walks to school anymore, it's too degrading for young Roburt or Lyndzee to walk to school or carpool. They all drive and take up all the residential parking in the surrounding four block area, including some alleyways that service trucks need to access phone and gas lines during the day. 140lbs of harmones driving a ton of steel at the end of the school day does not make walking in residential areas safe at certain times of day. It completely clogs all streets and highways to and from the high school. Besides, the school district could sell that land for a small fortune so a developer could build some really high density rat cages, with profits building the new combined junior high and high school out on Bronx Rd. Keep high traffic schools where they belong..on main arterials and highways, not residential areas. Now we even bus kids to and from all the daycare centers in residential areas on roads not built to handle heavy school busses. I didn't know it was the taxpayers responsibility to get your kids to daycare. Ummmm. "

" Everyone is against another traffic light, what Sandpoint needs to look at are a couple of pedestrian bridges, you see them in spokane, and bigger city's where you have heavy traffic and would cause traffic jams by adding more lights. It will be a shame to have to sit at 5 lights between division and 1st. "

" Hwy 2 at Olive is not the worst crossing. What??? has it right: it's Pine and 3rd. I've never crossed there, but I've almost hit a few pedestrians. There is just too much merging going on, and worrying about cars pulling out from Pine and 4th and Pine and 3rd. Also, a second intersection would be Division and Michigan. They should make the intersection default green to Division St, then rotate whenever pedestrians push the button. During school hours the pedestrian traffic is constant and people can't exit the school parking lot. "

" I believe the solution at this intersection would be a traffic light to control automobile and pedestrian traffic, maybe it could be on a timer to coincide with the increased traffic resulting at certain times of day due to school schedules. What I notice when I cross the highway from the south Olive side is that drivers coming from the direction of the high school, look up and down the highway for oncoming traffic, but many fail to look across the highway to see if anything is coming from S. Olive. Many times in the past few years I've come close to being hit by drivers who don't even look towards S. Olive St. when they are turning from Michigan. "

" 90 minutes? C'mon, that's ridiculous. I'm all for the crossing, but why must there be all this exaggeration? "

" Nobody ever waited 90 minutes to cross the highway. What a bright idea, another traffic light. I can see some rear-end collisions, while kids stand there and mess with traffic at-will. What about a pedestrian walk-over. I bet that would cost less than $100,000 and would not disrupt traffic. "

" So, it's the ITD that hasn't painted the very crosswalk in the subject area. And it is the ITD that increased the speed limit from 25 to 35mph west of Lake St. on Hwy 2. Before installing the light...paint the crosswalk and lower the speed limit on Hwy 2 to 25mph all the way up to the Federal Bldg. It would be a great start to making the crossing safe while we wait a year for installation. I find that drivers pay attention to that crosswalk when it is visible. Battery operated flashing LED lights would help too during the next year. I'm glad something is being done at this very dangerous crossing. "

" I used to live on Olive a block or two from the US 2 intersection. I've have never ever seen someone standing there for 5 minutes let alone 90 minutes. If people in this town and area would slow down or do the speed limit and maybe learn that they have to yield to pedestrians in crosswalks, there is on there if it would be painted more frequently it might be seen, its the law. I have a cheaper solution. Change the speed limit to 25 through there until after the light on division. The town has expanded I think its appropriate with the businesses and houses all along there or in close proximity. Then you can use one to put a pedestrian light on Pine St. and Third Downtown. Thats more unsafe cause of trees and cars park along the road. People don't pay attention on the part of Pine street and they go way to fast to try to merge left or right depending on where they're going. I've seen so many near misses on Pine its crazy. "