[Vision2020] Third Street Jam (was LMT Article)

[Donovan Arnold]

Moscow does not have a traffic problem. It just needs
to ticket assholes that do not pause for pedestrians.
It takes a whopping 8 minutes to drive from one corner
of town to the other, 10 minutes in ice and bad
traffic.

Do not try to turn left onto Main Street from 3rd. And
do not try to turn left from Adams onto 6th. People
need to plan their trips better. During busy times of
the day, plan your trip so that you approach the place
you plan to park at so that it is on your right side,
ie, drive around the block or park and walk across the
street if it is on the left side. It is bad drivers
that try to make unprotected left turns across solid
lines of traffic that screw the rest of us up and
block traffic. 

There is nothing wrong with the design, it is the
people that mess it up. Just like this stupid 3rd
street bridge, does it really take that long to drive
another block over and down 6 th or A st? No, it saves
them about 15 seconds of driving--hardly worth
building a road and spending taxpayer dollars over.

I only have two traffic concerns, children crossing
Mt. View, and college students crossing the
Moscow-Pullman Highway. 

Donovan J Arnold



--- Art Deco <deco at moscow.com> wrote:

> Dan,
> 
> Perhaps these two ideas may help:
> 
> 1.    Remove the parking from the north side of
> Third between Washington and 
> Main, thus creating a buffer for turning traffic.
> 
> 2.    Motivate the MPD to enforce the law with
> actual citations to those 
> that run the yellow light and fail to clear the
> intersection before the red 
> light and cite those that enter the intersection on
> a red light.  I know 
> this sounds radical, but ...
> 
> 
> Art Deco (Wayne A. Fox)
> deco at moscow.com
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Dan Carscallen" <areaman at moscow.com>
> To: "'Vision 2020'" <vision2020 at moscow.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, October 25, 2005 4:00 PM
> Subject: [Vision2020] Third Street Jam (was LMT
> Article)
> 
> 
> > Wayne says:
> >
> > "On a much less important issue, I have just
> avoided a huge traffic jam
> > along Washington between 6th and 3rd caused by
> those turning left onto
> > third continuing to come after the red light,
> getting caught in the
> > intersection, and thus preventing traffic on 3rd
> in both directions from
> > moving.
> >
> > Since this mess occurs almost daily during high
> traffic volumes and the
> > MPD station is only a block away, one wonders... "
> >
> > I noticed this today as well, wondering if the
> lights had changed again.
> > I know that ITD and the City of Moscow Street
> Department have been
> > looking for ways to ameliorate this entanglement,
> usually sacrificing
> > free flow from another direction.  It seemed that
> the way the lights had
> > changed to allow left-turning traffic continue
> west was mitigating the
> > problem.  Such was not the case today.
> >
> > DC
> >
> >
>
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