Re: Highway 95 -- Moscow Bypass

["Philip Cook" <pcook@uidaho.edu>]

Bruce Livingston wrote:

> The experience of many cities that built interstate highway spurs and
> beltways was that it hurt their downtowns and ecouraged development outside
> of the downtown aand instead on the beltway.

To me, this result is not inevitable.  If a community has the political 
will to keep land along the spur, beltway, or bypass in zoning 
classifications that prohibit such development, then it cannot 
occur. The big question is does such political will exist? 

Philip Cook