ITD: Megaload prospects dubious

Idaho Transportation Department’s history at Higgens Point, with a road grader and tractor on the bottom of lake, is hardly a recommendation for future success moving a megaload of refinery equipment across the same unstable ground. Randolph Hearst dismantled a castle in Europe, numbered each stone, crated it up and shipped it half a world away, to be reassembled on a mountain top in California. Considering the mitigation costs the ITD and the citizens of Idaho had to pay last time, perhaps the Hearst method would be a better route to travel. Judging from their annual reports the oil companies can afford the added expense.

MIKE BLACKBIRD

Post Falls