Re: Moscow-Troy trail needs your help

[Tom Lamar <lamar@pcei.org>]

Stan,

Yes, you're right.  The trail will ultimately need more than $500,000.
This one grant offering had an upper limit of that amount.  We are also
raising personal contributions (totaling $12,500 to date).  The Chipman
Trail was built with a state grant of $900,000 plus an additional $510,000
raised in private local funds.  In my first post I said the grant would be
used for acquisition and "initial" improvements.   The point of my notice
was that here is a good opportunity for some funding, and we need your help
to get it.

The specific location that you have mentioned is already secured for
funding as part of Moscow's portion of this trail.  Last year Moscow
recieved a grant from this same program to acquire and improve a trail
along the railbed from Steiner Road to Carmichael Road (from about the
Believers Fellowship Church to about the UI Forest Nursery east of town).
The County portion will extend past that to the Troy City Park.  As a
member of Moscow's new Transportation Committee, I will pass your
suggestion regarding the Mountain View intersection on to the city.  There
is still lots of room for input on specific design modifications for both
projects.

Thanks for your support of the project.

Tom



>it's going to need more than $500,00, we live on South Mountian
>View, check out the corner of Troy Hightway and Mountain View, it's
>a blind corner onto the trail, going North on Mountain View it is a
>blind Corner to see either side of the trail, , turning East off Troy
>Highway onto Mountain View is a blind corner on both sides of the
>trail, (esp when you have to take that corner at 35 because the
>driver behind you is speeding up for the 45 mile an hour zone just
>past it and ignoreing your turn signal)
>
>there going to have to buy land on both sides of the rail right of way and
>level
>a large chunk of farm area or make an underpass or over pass of some sort
>to make it safe for kids on bikes or walking.
>
>it would be nice to see this go through, but thats a bad corner at the
>best of times.
>
>Stan Evans


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