Interstate 95

["bill london" <bill_london@hotmail.com>]

Sorry, I just can't let this one go by without comment.

I awoke to the Tribune article (Sat 2/5, page 10A) on Linda Pall's 
suggestion to remake Idaho Highway 95 into an Interstate.

While I usually agree with Linda, I really hope this idea dies a 
well-deserved death (again, since she is not the first to suggest it).

Keeping in mind that widening and remaking dangerous sections of 95 is a 
sensible thing, I would hate to see us go overboard and try to upgrade 95 to 
an Interstate.

Do we want to pave over hundreds of Palouse farmland acres with this new 
road to parallel the existing highway?

Do we want to blast a huge roadway along the Salmon River between Whitebird 
and New Meadows?

For me the answer is "nope"--an Interstate would cost both too many dollars 
and too much ecological damage.  and probably bring us too many Winnebagos.

I would much rather see those kinds of dollars go to public transportation 
within our cities and between them.
BL
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