[Vision2020] Highway 95 route study

[Dick Schmidt]

It is my understanding that if someone in the IDT had done their job instead of "forgetting" about an environmental impact statement we would be seeing dirt being moved south of town.
How come we never hear who the guilty person was who forgot to do his job and who has probably been promoted to his level of incompetence? I thought that route had already been decided.

North of town, near the county line,  they are really moving the dirt and I hope that is the contractor that does the job between here and Lewiston. I hope they never give another contract to the contractor who took 2 years to do the 1/4 mile south in the city of Moscow.

I thought I understood that the Moscow City council has already made the decision to not have a bypass around Moscow because too many business would lose business. Supposedly a traffic count was taken and there isn't enough traffic to have a bypass so we will continue to have logging and chip trucks tearing up the streets of Moscow. Sounds like a fake deal to me. 

There should be a bypass included in any studies that are done at this time. Do they think that traffic is going to decrease in the future? Who is making the decisions...............another bureaucrat who has been promoted to his/her level of incompetence?

Dick Schmidt
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Bill London 
  To: thorncreekroadtomoscow at itd.idaho.gov ; rbci at cableone.net 
  Cc: vision2020 at whale2.fsr.net 
  Sent: Tuesday, October 26, 2004 3:12 PM
  Subject: [Vision2020] Highway 95 route study


  Ken Helm, Project Manager:

  Here we go again.

  The Idaho Dept. of Transportation is planning to study the route of a segment of Highway 95 -- again -- without a serious look at the larger, cumulative impacts of their decision.  

  From what I could find on your website, your study focuses entirely on the 7 mile segment of Highway 95 in question.  You do not include the larger impact.  You do not widen the study to include the vital discussion of the future of transportation in the Moscow area, including the issues of whether we will need or want ring roads or a Highway 95 bypass.

  The present discussion of the route of Highway 95 and the question of any future bypass (moving Highway 95 around Moscow) are directly linked.  Logically, we can not discuss this routing issue without first discussing the bypass issue.  

  You have the opportunity to facilitate the larger discussion of transportation in Moscow (highway route, bypass, and ring road system) that will enable sound decision-making.  Without that perspective, this EIS process is incomplete.

  Bill London


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