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["sue,stu scott camas Winery" <scottcamas@turbonet.com>]

>Subject: WebCam & Transportation
>Date: Thu, 11 May 2000 15:17:00 -0700
>Message-Id: <22170050034209@ns1.turbonet.com>
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>>I just wish the camera were on top of the bank looking back at Mingles etc.
>Then I could see who was ripping up my flowers and tossing them (and their
>cookies) on the sidewalk.  Since the testosterone and alcohol combo seem to
>relieve the imbiber of all self discipline, maybe a camera would enable a cure.
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>>Mostly I think the camera will show what a fairly sleepy downtown we have
>and mostly expose the urban life of squirrels and ravens.
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>>Great joint meeting of the City P& Z and Transportation Commissions last
>nite.  Consensus on asking City Council to get a funded Corridor/bypass
>study from ITD re N/S and E/W bypasses. ( alternate routes).  A completed
>feasibility study will allow application for funding sources for
>construction. (per ITD liaison)
>>If you have seen the beautiful village community (complete with trolley)
>that downtown Walla Walla is becoming, a bypass should not threaten the
>downtown if proper planning is done.
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>>The only concern that woke me in the middle of the night was funding for
>the 95 & hwy. 8 dowtown street maintenance if they are no longer state
>highways. Of course, they wouldn't get to be in such bad shape without the
>chip trucks. 
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>>We now just need an Andrew Carnegie or Simplot to provide funds to buy up
>all the railway corridors to preserve the space for future transportation.
>Light rail commute during the week, and recreational trail on the weekends?
>Or slower commuter trolley that would share with bikes etc.? Leave the rails
>embedded in tarmac?
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>> L.A. and San Francisco and San Jose have had horrendous problems
>rebuilding their light rail systems after having abandoned them for roads-
>let's learn from their mistakes.
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>>sue Scott camas Winery
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