Re: vision2020-digest Digest V99 #192

[Charles Swift <charless@moscow.com>]

At 08:55 AM 9/14/99 -0700, it was suggested: 

> The trucks have a better route via I 90
> through Mullan Pass and then to 
> the 
> river ports. It's also an Interstate. 
>
> I recommended to one of the State Highway commissioners US 12 be
> converted 
> into a "Parkway" with trucks banned. He was not very excited
> about 
> this--obviously captive to the highway and auto industries. 
>
> My comment is to circulate petitions to ban the trucks from Spalding
> junction to the Highway 93 junction in Montana. Local service trucks
> only. 

This is a great idea. We were recently up on the Lochsa and it is a
beautiful area but the large number of trucks rolling along the river was
annoying. Perhaps (although I doubt it) some would be more receptive to
this with all the Lewis & Clark hoopla going on. I can't imagine that
towns along that route benefit that much from the truck traffic. How many
of these trucks are bound for the Port of Lewiston??

Thanks, Charles.

       

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       Charles E. Swift 

        Moscow, Idaho

     charless@moscow.com

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