vision2020
Re: Traffic revision?
Warbonnet Drive is a city street. Rather than speculate about the
repainting, I would suggest you contact either Mark Cook,
Moscow's Director of Public Works, or Mike McGahan, with the
Moscow Street Department. See the phone book for City office
numbers.
Philip Cook
Date forwarded: Thu, 21 Jun 2001 22:40:38 -0700 (PDT)
From: "Ry Jones" <rjones@airgap.net>
To: <vision2020@moscow.com>
Subject: Traffic revision?
Date sent: Thu, 21 Jun 2001 22:38:55 -0700
Forwarded by: vision2020@moscow.com
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> The right hand southbound lane at the intersection of War Bonnet and
> West Pullman (the Wal Mart intersection) used to be a left or right
> turn. The defacto use of the lane was that it was split; people going
> to Pullman would get far right and make a right, people going left
> would stay in the left hand part of the lane. This gave us three
> lanes, and life was usually OK.
>
> After the latest round of restriping, it's a right turn only lane.
> Why the change? This means that basically all of the people who can't
> figure out how to leave the Wal Mart parking lot end up jammed trying
> to merge where there is no space to merge, and the people who know
> how to leave without causing a traffic jam are now punished having to
> wait for the morons at the bottom of the hill to play car tetris
> (should I say SUV tetris?) while dodging people trying to make a left
> into Wal Mart. ARGH. If this is private property, I can see them
> changing lane designations at will. If this is city property, I'd
> like to know if this is just an oversight or if the use of the lane
> has actually been changed.
>
> Ry "looking too closely at the pavement" Jones
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