Update On Preferred Route For Trucks Around Northeast Side Of Williston -- September 22, 2017

This is simply an update; nothing in stone (or, better said, nothing in asphalt or cement) yet.

From The Williston Herald:

City and county officials have signed off on a preferred route that will divert heavy truck traffic from downtown Williston.

The votes allow the state Department of Transportation to continue an environmental study on the area that will determine where exactly the road will go. 

The proposed 9-mile truck reliever route will connect U.S. Highway 2 and North Dakota Highway 1804 northeast of the city of Williston.

Actually in my mind, it makes more sense to say, the 9-mile route that will connect ND Highway 1804 east of Williston with US Highway 2 northeast of Williston, swinging north around Spring Lake Park, if that make sense.

This is the map that The Williston Herald posted to show the proposed routes and the preferred route (the thick black line).

I had a little trouble sorting out exactly where that thick black line ran, and tried to duplicate an "idealized" representation on a non-satellite Google map. This is my graphic and it may be very, very wrong. As noted, I had a bit of trouble sorting out the City of Williston map.