[Vision2020] Re: With gas at $2.50 a gallon it is time to cutCrosswalk numbers

[Ron Force]

6th and 3rd, East of downtown were originally constructed as residential
streets.  In fact, if you'll look as you whiz by, you'll see that a lot of
people still live there and enjoy walking around their neighborhoods.  It's
only in the last 10-15 years, as residential neighborhoods have sprawled
East and the motor businesses have metastasized to the West that these
intervening neighborhoods have been reduced to "routes".

This is a cautionary tale, as the community prepares D & E as the next
"traffic sacrificial zones" by proposing to relocate schools and rezoning
farmland without infrastructure planning.
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Ron Force          Moscow ID USA

rforce at moscow.com
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  -----Original Message-----
  From: vision2020-bounces at moscow.com
[mailto:vision2020-bounces at moscow.com]On Behalf Of Dick Schmidt
  Sent: Monday, April 11, 2005 2:50 PM
  To: John Dickinson; nchaney at moscow.com; pegh at uidaho.edu; jon at n-k-ins.com;
jmack at turbonet.com; lpall at moscow.com
  Cc: vision2020 at moscow.com
  Subject: [Vision2020] Re: With gas at $2.50 a gallon it is time to
cutCrosswalk numbers


  John,

  I am mainly concerned with main arterials such as highway 95 and highway
8. Many of us who live on the east side of town take Joseph St. to Mt. View,
to 6th, to Hayes, to 3rd then east to WinCo or wherever. It is the fastest
way to get from the east side of town to the west side. (6th to Washington
to 3rd is slower 80% of the time) Time is money and very stop wastes gas.

  Dick Schmidt
    ----- Original Message -----
    From: John Dickinson
    To: 'Dick Schmidt' ; nchaney at moscow.com ; pegh at uidaho.edu ;
jon at n-k-ins.com ; jmack at turbonet.com ; lpall at moscow.com
    Cc: vision2020 at moscow.com
    Sent: Monday, April 11, 2005 2:40 PM
    Subject: RE: With gas at $2.50 a gallon it is time to cut Crosswalk
numbers


    Dick,

    Great idea, I am just not sure if we should delete the left or right
half of each crosswalk. I’ll check with city staff to see which will help
our oil production the most.



    John




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    From: Dick Schmidt [mailto:dickschmidt at moscow.com]
    Sent: Monday, April 11, 2005 1:24 PM
    To: nchaney at moscow.com; johnd at moscow.com; pegh at uidaho.edu;
jon at n-k-ins.com; jmack at turbonet.com; lpall at moscow.com
    Cc: vision2020 at moscow.com
    Subject: With gas at $2.50 a gallon it is time to cut Crosswalk numbers



    All,



    I have noticed the huge amount of pedestrian crosswalks in the city.
With gas prices at $2.50 a gallon it is time to cut the number of
crosswalks, where traffic must stop solely for a pedestrian, by at least
half and you probably could cut 2/3 and still have adequate crosswalks.
Every time you cause a 4,000 vehicle to stop it wastes gas and pollutes the
air. Think of all the trucks that have to stop at the same crossings.



    I particularly noticed on 3rd street between Hayes St. and Line St.
there are 15 crosswalks not including the 3 stoplights between them. In the
main part of town there are 4 crosswalks on Jackson and 9 on Washington St.
in addition to 2 stop lights on both streets.



    There will be some who whine that we need to have them for our college
students but these college students aren't paying my gas bills. This
situation just adds more unnecessary costs to the cost of living in Moscow
which is already very high. They can learn to cross where there is a light
to get to the downtown area.



    I hope you will look into this situation and right after school lets out
next month would be an excellent time to implement this.



    Dick Schmidt


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