Re: Moscow-Troy trail needs your help

[sec@moscow.com]

> 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.

ah! I see. ok, that makes sense.

> 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.

well I hope it DOES get looked at. I almost hit 2 kids last month on that corner, 
I was I was doing less than 20 miles an hour. and I know I'm not the 
only one.

Stan Evans