[Vision2020] Trip from Moscow to Pullman to Become Life intheFour-Lane

[Matt Decker]

Well at least this will help. I would also hope/think that the proposed 5 
lane highway will cut down on accidents.

Matt


>From: "Linda Pall" <lpall at moscow.com>
>To: "Tom Hansen" <thansen at moscow.com>,        "Moscow Vision 2020" 
><vision2020 at moscow.com>
>Subject: Re: [Vision2020] Trip from Moscow to Pullman to Become Life 
>intheFour-Lane
>Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2006 10:41:56 -0800
>
>Dear Tom and Visionaries,
>
>I wish I could see the proposed 270 construction as a great improvement on 
>the Moscow-Pullman highway but I cannot. The original design which was cut 
>back drasticly because of budget realignments was far better, providing a 
>median to prevent cross traffic collisions and multiple entries along the 
>highway as well as to provide a more reasonable construction plan (doing 
>two lanes at a time, allowing traffic to use the 'old' two lane 
>configuration while the 'new' pair is being constructed, with the median 
>separation, while also providing some landscaping that would benefit the 
>roadway).
>
>It is true that the present road is desperately in need of improvement. I 
>just wish that the  improved design would follow through as originally 
>proposed because I believe that four lanes with a turn lane at the center 
>and no physical barriers will not provide the advertised safety but will 
>provide the advertised speeding and passing.
>
>All the best, I hope,
>
>Linda Pall
>
>   ----- Original Message -----
>   From: Tom Hansen
>   To: Moscow Vision 2020
>   Sent: Monday, January 30, 2006 6:01 AM
>   Subject: [Vision2020] Trip from Moscow to Pullman to Become Life in 
>theFour-Lane
>
>
>   From today's (January 30, 2006) Spokesman review -
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>   Trip from Moscow to Pullman to become life in the four-lane
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>   Amy Cannata
>
>   Staff writer
>
>   January 30, 2006
>
>
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>   The drive between Moscow, Idaho, and Pullman is about to get an overhaul 
>more than a decade in the making.
>
>
>
>   The Washington state Department of Transportation will begin work this 
>year on a six-mile-long state Highway 270 project that will boost the 
>two-lane road to four lanes with a center turn lane and rumble strips.
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>   The widening work will be done between Pullman and the Idaho border this 
>year and next.
>
>
>
>   Highway 270 is the main road connecting Pullman, home of Washington 
>State University, and Moscow, site of the University of Idaho. It has been 
>the scene of some deadly wrecks, including a 2001 collision in which three 
>WSU students were killed.
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>
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>   While the main goal of the widening project is to increase traffic 
>capacity, it will have the added benefit of improving safety, said 
>Transportation Department spokesman Al Gilson.
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>
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>   "The most horrific accidents come from improper passing," he said.
>
>
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>   That was the case in the 2001 collision. Fred Russell, the WSU student 
>accused of causing that crash while driving drunk, fled to Ireland. He's 
>now awaiting a decision on whether he will be extradited to stand trial in 
>Whitman County.
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>
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>   With an additional lane in each direction, passing accidents should 
>decrease, Gilson said.
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>
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>   It has taken a few fits and starts to get to this point. After the state 
>allocated funding under its 2003 nickel gas tax increase, it quickly became 
>clear that there wasn't enough money to fund a proposal for a divided 
>four-lane highway with frontage roads.
>
>
>
>   The new plan without frontage roads and with the center turning lane 
>rather than a median fits within the state's $30 million budget.
>
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>   Drivers will be able to use the highway while it's under construction.
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>   Suddenly that trip to and from Pullman is a bit more driver-friendly.
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>   Take care, Moscow.
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>
>
>   Tom Hansen
>
>   Moscow, Idaho
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>
>
>   "If not us, who?
>   If not now, when?"
>
>   - Unknown
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