Explain why this particular stretch of Washington Street is so dangerous, and why the 2024 south bypass didn't entirely solve the problem of heavy truck traffic.

This section of Washington Street coming through Blair is kind of the focal point for five different major highways coming through this part of Nebraska.

So you have Highway 30 east-west, Highway 75 north-south, and Highway 91 coming in from the west.

And so all of those coalesce, if you will, at 19th and Washington Street.

And from 19th to 13th Street, they all run together, which is the, the downtown core of Blair.

I want to say 10,000 trucks a day that go through there.

A four-lane road with a center lane down the middle, and it's not uncommon to just have a steady stream of trucks each direction all day long.

No way to reroute that traffic before it gets to the bottleneck point of a problem in downtown Blair?