8/9/2013
Reed Hollinshead
ITD Communication
208-334-8881
reed.hollinshead@itd.idaho.gov
UPDATE: Traffic impacts announced for Vietnam Memorial Wall procession in North Idaho Wednesday
COEUR d'ALENE - There will be several significant traffic impacts associated with the Wednesday (Aug. 14) Vietnam Memorial Wall procession through North Idaho, the Idaho Transportation Department announced. The viewing will be Aug. 16-18.
The procession will start at 11 a.m. MST and is expected to take up to an hour to complete. Several hundred veterans on motorcycles and two or three semi-trucks will receive a police escort. The Idaho State Police, Kootenai County Sheriff’s Department, Post Falls Police Department and Coeur d’Alene Police Department will be on hand to assist with the procession.
Law enforcement will close all approaches along U.S. 95, from Interstate 90 to Prairie Avenue. The procession will proceed eastbound and be joined by officers from Kootenai County and/or the state police at Interstate 90’s state border, turn at Exit 12, and continue four miles to Hayden's city park on U.S. 95, turning at Prairie Avenue.
ITD will assist with electronic message boards and signs to announce the closures and impacts along the procession route.