[Vision2020] Vision2020 Digest, Vol 2, Issue 16

[Donovan Arnold]

David,
  
 I believe that the reason traffic has increased so  much is because of the new traffic design of the city. We use to have 5  east and west bound lanes between 1st and 8th streets. The city has  decided to reduce that number down to just two lanes. Considering the  volume of traffic that travels east and west, it is not surprising to  me that traffic has been slowed down and thus increased.
  
 It  use to be, from 1890 to about 1992, that everybody that lived on   A, 1st, and some on 2nd streets, took 1st street all the way down to as  far as Tri-State. 
  
  Everybody on 2nd, 3rd and 4th streets took 3rd Street.
  
  Everybody on 5th, 6th, 7th, and 8th streets took 6th and 8th streets.
  
  Everybody on Lewis and over to the Troy Highway took the Troy Highway  and 8 th street. This evened out the traffic congestion. 
  
  But then the city shut down 1st street, moving all that traffic to B  and 3rd streets. Then they shut off 8th with the Hospital expansion.  Finally, they reduced 3rd street from two lanes to one.  
  
  In addition to 6th and 3rd streets having to hold the load for what was  once spread  out over about six roads, it also increases the wear  and tear on the roads resulting in them needing more extensive and  frequent repairs. Which, as a result leads to more disruptive  construction. 
  
 We have people that don't understand our city  making traffic designs and that is what creates all our traffic  congestion problems. If they were in charge of our cars we would have  square wheels. If the city would just follow the lay out of the city as  its founders intended we would not have so many problems. 
  
  Best,
  
  _DJA
  
  
  
  
  


david sarff <davesway at hotmail.com> wrote:  I would like to see transportation distribution zones that restrict vehicles 
by weight class.
On national and local levels.

Also, it would be great to give the students incentive to leave their cars 
home. Offer tuition or housing cost adjustments. Something


Out of the last 43 years that I can remember of Moscow. The volume of 
traffic seems exponentially larger than the increase in actual population. 
Growing traffic adds a certain madness to Moscow and to the nation that I 
certainly would prefer have go away.

By the looks of the developing infeed/outfeed status-quo infrastructure. 
Traffic pressure does not look as though its going to ease off anytime soon.

Dave Sarff



>From: Nils Peterson 
>
>
>What a fine opportunity to talk about alternative transportation modes.
>Thanks Tom Ivie for your recent post on Federal Funding for such work. And
>thanks to the COOP for starting your effort to get shoppers to use
>alternative modes, looks like you were planning ahead.
>
>
>


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