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

[Donovan Arnold]

Steven,
  
  Thanks for your reply. I was unaware that they had decided not to build an alternative route for Highway 95 around Moscow.
  
  I think that if they did, we could turn Washington into a two way road  and shut down Main and Jackson to traffic. I would like to see in the  future, a Moscow where everything west of Washington and to about where  the Subway building is located, and everything north of 6th St. and  south of 1St. all being foot and trolley traffic only; like it is in  parts of San Fransisco, Seattle, and Eugene Oregon. 
  
  Perhaps, if we plan now, in twenty years that could happen.
  
  Take Care,
  
  _DJA

Steven Basoa <sbasoa at moscow.com> wrote:  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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