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Re: Interstate 95
This is some good information David thank you for sharing it with all of us.
Wolfgang M. Schwartzenweintraub
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----- Original Message -----
From: "david sarff" <davesway@hotmail.com>
To: <vision2020@moscow.com>
Sent: Monday, February 07, 2000 5:41 PM
Subject: Re: Interstate 95
>
> For those interested in safety statistics relating to the trucking
industry
> check out the web site below:
>
> http://www.underridenetwork.org/safetyfacts.html
>
> I am very pleased to see the discussion making attempts at alternatives to
> four lane mentality.
> To me one way or another in the not to distant future we will be forced to
> change from our present forms of transit...I can not foresee the long
range
> use of the tractor trailer set up to move mass freight along side light
> weight forms of personal transit...the physics will always be against the
> smaller mass.
> It could be that a four lane now could just amount to a total waist in
20-30
> years.
> Im for realignment and wider shoulders..In Canada the drive from Creston
to
> Prince Rupert is pleasant and efficient.Thats about 800 miles.
> I kind of suspect that our model for our four lane roads do not
accommodate
> bicycles as well as the Canadian two laners.
>
> There may be another reality to debate with regard to a freeway from
Canada
> to Boise...are there not two Sovereign Nations that highway 95 presently
> passes through...The Nez Perce and the Coeur d' Alene...?
> I wonder what they think.
> The set in the movie Smoke Signals would sure as heck never be the same.
> David Sarff
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