Re: Highway 95

["david sarff" <davesway@hotmail.com>]

The new federal highway funding system is under the heading of TEA-21
There are an enormous amount of projects rolling out and under contention 
presently.
Any good search engine brings TEA-21 up....lots to read about. Im not so 
sure that what we have going on with our four lane to come is entirely 
within the intent of the funding.
For example there is a lot of wording about alternative transportation 
support(Bikes/pedestrians)
Somebody correct me if im wrong but:
>From a local representation point of view the city had a meeting a couple of 
years ago at outset of getting funding and asked for a by pass with 
realignment and widening of 95...we got a four lane and no by pass.
It will be interesting to see if anything of substance comes from the public 
meetings soon to come...or just a straw hat and cane routine.
Dave


>From: "Mark Miller" <mjmiller@moscow.com>
>To: "Visionaries" <vision2020@moscow.com>
>Subject: Highway 95
>Date: Sun, 20 Feb 2000 12:46:00 -0800
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>All,
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>I have been watching the discussion on U.S. 95 for some time now.  I'm sure 
>that I have missed some of the discussion, but I think that I have taken in 
>enough to form some sort of personal outlook on the whole thing.  I have a 
>question and a comment for this group.  Forgive me if either of these items 
>have been covered in depth already.
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>1) Has anybody really given it any thought as to why this money was 
>allocated for this project in the first place.  Pork like this usually 
>doesn't get added to a bill without some sort of heavy constituent 
>pressure.  Idaho Dept. of Law Enforcement, University of Idaho, Potlatch 
>Corp., etc.  Anybody know of such pressure.  I don't really think that 
>Dirk's ties to North Idaho are so strong that he would have done this on 
>his own.
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>2) The topic of the deer population on the west end of Paradise Ridge 
>really bothers me.  I was once on a road in, and I can't for the life of me 
>remember which state, either Utah or Nevada and I counted dead deer by the 
>10's along a stretch of maybe 5 miles.  I hadn't given this much thought 
>until now, but is obvious why the mortality level was so high there -- a 
>fairly new four lane highway built through deer habitat.  The ironic bit of 
>this trip for me was that it was at night and I also saw countless live 
>deer.  I was scared to death for my own safety!  So it's a two way street 
>when you invade this type of habitat.  The deer population on Paradise 
>Ridge I'm sure is similar to this in concentration.
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>I've rambled on enough.  I commuted from Moscow to Lewiston every working 
>day for the last five years and I am very much in favor of a major upgrade 
>of this highway, but the more I view your comments the more puzzled I am 
>about  the best way to do it.
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>I would like to hear more about the following:
>     Western route
>     Moscow bypass and where it might go (maybe through the Palouse Mall)
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>Thanks for listening,
>Mark Miller
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