[Vision2020] No more needless deaths

[Tom Hansen]

Courtesy of today's (March 4, 2013) Moscow-Pullman Daily News with thanks to Al Poplawski.

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No more needless deaths
Tragically, Monday (Feb. 25) morning's snow on the Palouse brought yet another traffic-related death on U.S. Highway 95's Reisenauer Hill south of Moscow, further emphasizing the critical need to correct this section of road.
How do we do this? Idaho Transportation Department's Thorncreek to Moscow Draft Environmental Impact Statement alternatives C-3 and W-4 will turn this stretch of highway into a four-lane divided highway, bring it up to Federal Highway Administration safety standards and eliminate the safety problems.
However, the ITD preferred alternative E-2 will abandon this stretch of highway, and Latah County will inherit the problem. There are no provisions for making it safe. The problems will remain albeit with less traffic at least initially, assuming rampant residential development isn't immediate.
As many have pointed out, local residents, children on school buses and "drunks" will use this dangerous section of road almost exclusively since there will be little other access to the E-2 option of the new Highway 95. Inexplicably, despite the best efforts of many local residents to convince them otherwise, Latah County commissioners voted unanimously to endorse E-2 with no reservations. Residents must take care of this lethal problem themselves, once and for all. Urge ITD to reject alternative E-2 for this project online at:
http://us95thorncreek.com/schedule-2/comment-period/
Al Poplawsky, Moscow

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Seeya round town, Moscow, because . . .

"Moscow Cares"
http://www.MoscowCares.com
  
Tom Hansen
Moscow, Idaho

"There's room at the top they are telling you still 
But first you must learn how to smile as you kill 
If you want to be like the folks on the hill."

- John Lennon
 
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