[Vision2020] Sixth Street Parking (Just an Idea)

[Tom Hansen]

Anybody care to make any other suggestions to correct this problem?

Or are we just a bunch of . . .

Tom Hansen
Moscow, Idaho

> I agree too. I would not want to live on such a street.
>
> Joe Campbell
>
> On May 19, 2009, at 4:15 PM, "Warren Hayman" <whayman at roadrunner.com>
> wrote:
>
>> I concur. I cannot imagine either street becoming one-way without
>> serious,
>> deleterious effects on the neighborhood(s). Try a simple test: how
>> many
>> among us would want to live on such a traffic grid in a heart of
>> residential
>> Moscow?
>>
>> Warren Hayman
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Bruce and Jean Livingston" <jeanlivingston at turbonet.com>
>> To: "Tom Hansen" <thansen at moscow.com>; "Mike Deleve"
>> <coolerfixer at roadrunner.com>
>> Cc: "Moscow Vision 2020" <vision2020 at moscow.com>
>> Sent: Tuesday, May 19, 2009 4:01 PM
>> Subject: Re: [Vision2020] Sixth Street Parking (Just an Idea)
>>
>>
>>> 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
>>>
>>>
>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>> From: "Tom Hansen" <thansen at moscow.com>
>>> To: "Mike Deleve" <coolerfixer at roadrunner.com>
>>> Cc: "Moscow Vision 2020" <vision2020 at moscow.com>
>>> Sent: Tuesday, May 19, 2009 3:38 PM
>>> Subject: Re: [Vision2020] Sixth Street Parking (Just an Idea)
>>>
>>>
>>>> Restricting Third Street to one-way, east-bound traffic would not
>>>> have to
>>>> extend any further east than Sixth Street's one-way west bound
>>>> restriction
>>>> . . . maybe Blaine.
>>>>
>>>> Tom Hansen
>>>> Moscow, Idaho
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Sure! As long as they punch 3rd Street through to Mtn. View!
>>>>>
>>>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>>>> From: "Tom Hansen" <thansen at moscow.com>
>>>>> To: "Moscow Vision 2020" <vision2020 at moscow.com>
>>>>> Sent: Tuesday, May 19, 2009 3:09 PM
>>>>> Subject: [Vision2020] Sixth Street Parking (Just an Idea)
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>> Greetings Visionaires -
>>>>>>
>>>>>> After having watched videos of each meeting of the April 27th
>>>>>> Public
>>>>>> Works
>>>>>> and Finance Committee and the May 18th Moscow City Council, May I
>>>>>> suggest
>>>>>> this alternative . . .
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Realizing that parking is a virtual necessity for those living
>>>>>> on Sixth
>>>>>> Street, that reducing the speed limit is not likely to produce any
>>>>>> favorable results, how about . . .
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Restricting traffic on Sixth Street to one-way west-bound only,
>>>>>> commencing
>>>>>> from Washington and returning to two-way traffic at a point, to be
>>>>>> decided
>>>>>> by the appropriate committee, east of Washington.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> If additional east-bound access is considered essential, perhaps
>>>>>> Third
>>>>>> Street can become one-way east-bound.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Thoughts?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Tom Hansen
>>>>>> Moscow, Idaho
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> "The Pessimist complains about the wind, the Optimist expects it
>>>>>> to
>>>>>> change
>>>>>> and the Realist adjusts his sails."
>>>>>>
>>>>>> - Unknown
>>>>>>
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and the Realist adjusts his sails."

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