Re: Contrast in the Corridor

["JS M" <jbiggs50@hotmail.com>]

Thanx for the response.  Regardless of how you feel about a four-lane 
highway, it is important that the public participates in the review process 
for the project.  State and federal laws have set up procedures for review 
and input from the public that, if used, actually have an impact on project 
planning.  Maybe you would like a four-lane highway; what would you imagine 
a four-lane highway should look like?  Leave the decision to engineers, and 
you might get asphalt, concrete, and gravel without landscaping.  How close 
should the highway come to the Chipman Trail?  Should there be visual 
barriers from the trail to the highway?  Highway engineers will take the 
path of least resistance (the shortest route between two points being a 
straight line).  A little guidance from the public might make a more 
pleasant drive in the future.
jm

>From: mpresn1 <mpresn1@moscow.com>
>
>I have been hoping for some time now that the chance at a four lane
>highway between Moscow and Pullman might one day show up.  I used to
>travel along this road at least once a day, soemtimes more.  I would
>always get behind someone not doing even the speed limit.  My roommate
>has to leave for work an hour before she even needs to be there.  A
>simple commute between Moscow and Pullman.  The majority of the time I
>see great need for expansion of this road.  Especially when the Poe
>Asphalt trucks cut you off.  This last harvest was trying when there
>were a number of grain trucks turning, but didn't even have working turn
>signals.  And we have all hit the gas trying as hard as we might to get
>around the people who choose to take Sunday drives on this highway
>before the lanes merge.  I'm not advocating speeding on this road and
>sometimes I don't always see a need for four lanes, but that's only
>around three in the morning.  It's not just the highway that needs
>expanded.  There needs to be some better ways for turning
>traffic(particularily turcks) to turn.  Out in the middle of the road is
>very dangerous for others.  The sign going out of Moscow declaring the
>speed needs to be better seen because as of right now most people miss
>it.  Four lanes will make a safer and shorter commute.
>
>I do recognize the fact that increasing it to four lanes with maybe even
>a turn lane might be an influence for businesses to start locating along
>there and while I do not want to see this happen and would consider it a
>great tragedy, I have the feeling it's going to happen no matter what we
>say.  Wouldn't it be better to be prepared traffic wise now before the
>buildings start going up?
>

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