COEUR d’ALENE, Idaho — The Transportation Department plans a public hearing Thursday evening in Coeur d’Alene on plans for a megaload shipment that could close Interstate 90 for brief times.
The department says the closures and an on-ramp widening would be needed to accommodate three large shipments of oil field equipment headed to Canada.
The Spokesman-Review reports three loads could travel through Coeur d’Alene in the next month, each one 472 feet long, 27 feet wide and about 16 feet tall.
Sending huge loads of oil field equipment over Inland Northwest roads has drawn protests from local and tribal interests as well as environmentalists.
More than a dozen protesters were in jail Tuesday in Grant County, Ore., after trying to stop a separate megaload Monday night at John Day.
