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Re: Highway 95 -- Moscow Bypass
Mike it seems to me that there should be 4 bypasses , genessee to troy and
pullman, and somewhere north of moscow to pullman and troy. or at least
join the by-passes half way to pullman and troy so you could skirt around
moscow and avoid town.
Sam
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> From: Mike Curley <curley@CYPHER.TURBONET.COM>
> To: vision2020@moscow.com
> Subject: Re: Highway 95 -- Moscow Bypass
> Date: Wednesday, March 01, 2000 3:00 PM
>
> Visionaries:
> It doesn't seem to be a reasonable comparison to look at Moscow and
nearly any
> city in the crowded east--or any other larger city. Our downtown is two
blocks
> wide by 5 or 6 blocks long. If we keep running an ever increasing number
of
> trucks through it, no one will want to spend any time there. There is
plenty
> of room for development around the outskirts (and beyond) of the city
now.
> Putting a bypass through the west part of town isn't likely to promote
much
> business development on the U of I property or further south across
Palouse
> River Drive--at least none that couldn't already find a reasonably
> attractive location. With the couplet completed by the time any by-pass
is
> built, there will still be plenty of traffic through downtone.
Admittedly,
> some who are traveling to points north might exit the bypass at Moscow
for
> food, gas, or other supplies who might have made that stop downtown if
that
> were the only route. Since my downtown business doesn't rely on
> out-of-towners stopping by, I don't pretend to speak for retailers,
> restaurants, gas stations and others who do. But, if I were locating a
retail
> operation downtown right now, I would still push for a west Moscow
by-pass and
> believe that I was doing the right thing not only for the community but
also
> for my own economic self-interest.
>
> In that regard, I believe it in the city's best interest to encourage the
> current routing of 95 to be one of the more western routes (certainly not
over
> Paradise Ridge as the designers obviously want to encourage) so that a
by-pass
> remains a viable option. any route that ties into the couplet from the
east
> will be highly unlikely to afford an opportunity to realistically discuss
a
> by-pass.
>
> Mike Curley
>
>
>
> From: "Philip Cook" <pcook@uidaho.edu>
> Organization: University of Idaho
> To: vision2020@moscow.com
> Date: Wed, 1 Mar 2000 12:10:29 -0800
> Subject: Re: Highway 95 -- Moscow Bypass
> Reply-to: pcook@uidaho.edu
> Priority: normal
>
> 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
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