RE: Visions of Third Street Downtown Corridor

[John Teeter <johnt@fsr.com>]

actually a little speed control would do wonders for beginning to establish 
a safety factor; as well as providing short term revenue and a provokation 
for more (commercial) lobbying for a real bypass.  The more tickets you 
give those speeding chip trucks, the more they will want to avoid the 
problem:))

johnt

(p.s. not intended to imply that chip trucks speed or, if they do, that 
they are the only ones....)

On Thursday, October 29, 1998 6:29 AM, Mayme Trumble 
[SMTP:maymet@moscow.com] wrote:
> 2020 and Bill,
>
> I love that the Co-op will be closer to me and the High School. Maybe 
some
> of the kids will eat something healthy! :)
>
> Does anyone else find it odd, that we work hard to make our downtown more
> pedestrian friendly; yet have  THE major North -South Hwy coming thru 
this
> pedestrian area? Can the downtown decide if they want people or fast 
moving
> trucks and cars?
>
> >The liveliest discussion centered on the challenges to pedestrian
> >crossings of Washington Street at Fourth.  It was agreed that the amount
> >of pedestrian traffic was bound to increase (especially on Farmer's
> >Market days).  Several ideas (from blinking warning lights to  yellow
> >flags for pedestrians to carry to creating more slow-down curves in the
> >highway) were suggested.  There was no obvious answer to that one.
>