[Vision2020] Trip from Moscow to Pullman to Become Life
intheFour-Lane
Matt Decker
mattd2107 at hotmail.com
Mon Jan 30 13:19:46 PST 2006
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
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> Staff writer
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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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> 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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> "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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> With an additional lane in each direction, passing accidents should
>decrease, Gilson said.
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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.
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> 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
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> Moscow, Idaho
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>
> "If not us, who?
> If not now, when?"
>
> - Unknown
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