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[email protected] | 406-843-5247 Corridor study on Hwy 84 PUBLIC INPUT ENCOURAGED Montana is the oldest state west of the Mississippi, and demographic In the past, up- dated signage and projections show the state growing collectively older as more Montanans rumble strips were added to this area enter their senior years. The economic, cultural, and personal impacts of that to decrease crash trend present the state and its residents with new challenges and, with those clusters. MDT plans to add left challenges, opportunities. turn lanes into Red Mountain Graying Pains is a six-month series of weekly stories and broadcasts exploring Campground and those challenges and opportunities in communities statewide. By investigating PHOTO COURTESY how other communities have responded to the issues raised by aging, Graying OF MD Pains hopes to point the way toward policies and innovations that can help Montana, and Montanans, improve with age. The series is produced by the Montana Fourth Estate Project, a collaboration among 16 Montana newsrooms and the University of Montana School of By KEELY LARSON to “tricky curves,” Jason Senn, firm, Morrison Majerle, was Journalism under the auspices of the Montana Newspaper Association and the
[email protected] with MDT, said. Quite a few hired to start the year and a half crashes have occurred in this long corridor study. A corridor Solutions Journalism Network. See montanafourthestate.org for the collected Montana Department of small area, hence the title crash study is conducted early in proj- Graying Pains stories and more information.