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Article: Thor-Freya construction drops burden onto Eighth.
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- The Spokesman-Review (Spokane, WA)
- Article date:
- May 7, 2005
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Byline: Amy Cannata
May 7--If you look hard, you can almost see a line of cows walking down narrow, dusty Eighth Avenue.
But Eighth isn't a country lane; it's in Spokane's busy East Central neighborhood. And while it's barely more than an alley and too narrow in places for more than one car to pass, unpaved Eighth Avenue has become a shortcut for many drivers trying to avoid the traffic jams caused by construction of the Thor-Freya couplet.
And the city of Spokane has no plans to improve it.
Many south Spokane residents know that in a maze of dead-end roads, Eighth Avenue is one of the few that runs through to points east and west of ...