Re: The Life of a Pedestrian in the 8th St. Area Downtown

[Don Coombs <dcoombs@uidaho.edu>]

When they planned that section of street/highway (if anyone did) they
probably took comfort from the fact that the hospital was close.

So YES, you've identified a genuine problem!

Don H. Coombs

On Thu, 18 Feb 1999, John Francis wrote:

> 
> Getting across the couplets in the 8th St. area of Moscow as a pedestrian
> is challenging  but exciting if you're  agile, but try it when accompanying
> someone who is slow or elderly.  You need nerves of steel and some luck, or
> must walk blocks out of your way to find a convoluted route of safe
> crossing points.    From a pedestrian's viewpoint, the 8th St. area around
> the couplet is an engineering atrocity.