[Vision2020] highway
Sunil Ramalingam
sunilramalingam@hotmail.com
Thu, 26 Feb 2004 22:21:38 -0800
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<P>Pat,</P>
<P>Thank you for your clarification. I commute to Lewiston daily, so I have an interest in improvements to Highway 95. Yet I oppose the proposed Paradise Ridge route, not necessarily for environmental reasons. I think the Transportation Department intentionally offered two bad plans, with the goal of building the Paradise Ridge route. They knew that the many people who live along 95 now would mobilize and oppose that option. What other options were looked at prior to winnowing down the choices? Why were these two the 'best' choices? On winter days I check out the ridge to see how much fog is sitting where the proposed road will run. I don't believe that putting the highway up there is going to make me safer.</P>
<P>I wonder why they didn't include an option that would run the highway parallel to the state line, and connect with HY 8 around Walmart. I realize that some downtown merchants would oppose this, but would this necessarily harm Moscow's economy? </P>
<P>I would like to pass this message along: Just because it's snowing does not mean one must drive down Reisenauer Hill at 10 - 15 miles an hour. I've come up behind someone doing this twice now, and it hasn't been fun. I wasn't going over 40 either time, but it was still pretty hairy.</P>
<P>Donovan, I find it interesting that you think Idaho is too lax on drunk drivers. One of the Kootenai County deputy prosecutors recently had a column in the Spokesman-Review attacking Washington's ''lax" DUI laws, and complained that Washington doesn't have a felony DUI law; he contrasted Idaho's wonderful felony DUI statute and argued that Washington should follow our legislature's example. He campaigned to be a judge in Spokane in the last election, and I took the column to be his opening salvo in his next campaign. Now that you've identified our approach to DUIs as lax, he may have to pick a new state to champion.</P>
<P>Sunil</P></DIV>
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