[Vision2020] "Please sir, can I have some more?" RE: parking downtown

[Steven Basoa]

On Mar 25, 2006, at 12:16 AM, Donovan Arnold wrote:

I say your problem with downtown is not how little room there is for  
MORE cars, it is that there are TOO MANY cars. Shut downtown off from  
cars, use trolleys and shuttles around the center of town. The campus  
did it. We don't need 20,000 cars and trucks zooming around a town  
only 2 miles by 4 miles; it is silly and wasteful. If the city made  
vehicular travel more cumbersome and public and pedestrain  
transportation more accessible they would see stock in the downtown  
area rise. I hate transportation downtown, you cannot access  
idowntown because of all the cars and congestion. And the cars really  
detract from the otherwise  pleasant shopping experience downtown.  
Downtown was not designed to hold all that traffic and shove cars in  
like sardines. It is much easier and safer to go to the mall when  
downtown gets abused with that much traffic and congestion.

_DJA

Donovan:
I agree that it would be a great idea to make downtown Moscow a  
pedestrian paradise by closing it off to vehicular traffic.  However  
that idea won't work for the simple reason that both Jackson and  
Washington streets are state highways.  Although a [western] highway  
bypass has been desperately needed for many, many years, the Idaho  
Transportation Department doesn't agree.  According to Ken Helm of  
the ITD, a bypass for Moscow won't be necessary for at least 20 years  
(I believe they did a study on this several years ago).  Which means  
we're stuck with the state highway cutting through the heart of  
downtown.  But keep on pushing for this idea, I think it's a great one.

-SB


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