[Vision2020] Deakin decoys and traffic tangles

[Gary Crabtree]

It's nice to know that the U of I is so cash fat that precious resources
can be lavished on useless piles of concrete and brick. Oh well, at least
it's not reached the WSU level. (yet)

g


On Tue, Aug 19, 2014 at 10:35 AM, W.Price <bear at moscow.com> wrote:

> And next summer we get one that's similar on 6th Street.
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> On Aug 19, 2014, at 10:26 AM, Scott Dredge wrote:
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> This is what happens when people fight against megaloads.  They wind up
> cutting off their noses to spite their faces.  Now EVERYONE is
> inconvenienced ALL OF THE TIME instead of just a very few travelers in the
> bewitching hours having to wait all of 10 minutes during their once in a
> lifetime off chance encounter of being on the same stretch of road at the
> extremely unlikely same time as a megaload.  <shaking my head>, <frowny
> face>, <'they just don't get it...they don't>.
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> From: thansen at moscow.com
> Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2014 10:08:31 -0700
> To: kmmos1 at frontier.com
> CC: vision2020 at moscow.com
> Subject: Re: [Vision2020] Deakin decoys and traffic tangles
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> Seeya 'round town, Moscow, because . . .
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> "Moscow Cares" (the most fun you can have with your pants on)
> http://www.MoscowCares.com <http://www.moscowcares.com/>
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> Tom Hansen
> Moscow, Idaho
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> "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."
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> - John Lennon
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> On Aug 19, 2014, at 9:59 AM, Kenneth Marcy <kmmos1 at frontier.com> wrote:
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> Now that the construction equipment has been removed from the section of
> Deakin Street between the VandalStore and the administrative building
> formerly used as the Student Union Building, one may observe that a divider
> has been constructed in the middle of Deakin Street.  Not only will the
> divider leave less street width within which vehicles may operate down the
> street, they likely will do so at speeds reduced from those of roadways
> nearby.  Considering the amount of pedestrian traffic in this location,
> this is not necessarily an undesirable development.
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> One does notice, however, the construction of a couple of rectangular
> brick towers within the street divider between the buildings.  I don't know
> if there is a technical name for such constructions, or if they should be
> named to better identify them. Mutt and Jeff, Mork and Mindy, Amos 'n Andy
> -- who knows?
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> The question is whether the snow plow drivers whose services will likely
> be required within a few months will need special procedures and training
> to accomplish their jobs given the presence of these Deakin decoys for
> diversion, and perhaps other d-words, too.
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> Ken
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