[Vision2020] Sixth Street Parking (Just an Idea)

[Tom Hansen]

Bruce -

Like I had mentioned to another V2020 subscriber off-list . . .

Converting Third Street to one-way, east-bound was just a "for example"
suggestion.

Perhaps another street can be converted to one-way.

My primary suggestion relates that the least-expensive, least
time-consuming, extremely viable option would be to restrict Sixth Street
to one-way traffic.  I suggested west-bound based on my opinion that
travelling east on Sixth Street, in February after a heavy snow, would be
easier than east-bound in a comparable scenario.

As far as the temptation to exceed speed limits is concerned . . . if the
speed limit were enforced with some heavy fines . . .

Thoughts?

Tom Hansen
Moscow, Idaho



> I think that making Third and Sixth Streets one-way car conductors through
> the residential neighborhoods east of downtown is a terrible idea.
>
> I think such parallel one-way car conductors  will increase the speed of
> the
> vehicles through what are lovely residential neighborhoods.  I think they
> would bifurcate (or trifurcate) the east side of town, making it less
> walkable while markedly decreasing the ambience of East City Park.  I also
> think that such a plan would increase the likelihood of punching Third St.
> through to Mountainview in the way that would wreak the most havoc
> possible
> on the Third Street corridor.  In short, such a plan would adversely
> affect
> the neighborhoods, the property values, and the enjoyability of life along
> those streets.  Parallel one-way streets along Third and Sixth would
> probably lead to later efforts to widen those streets and make them
> arterials, notwithstanding the potential loss of trees that are an
> integral
> part of those neighborhoods.
>
> In short, Third and Sixth Streets would become much less desirable
> streets.
> Neighborhoods that are some of the jewels of the city would be hurt.  Such
> costs are not worth imposing on fellow citizens, simply to make it easier
> for someone that lives east of Mountainview to get home a minute sooner.
>
> Bruce Livingston