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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Open Letter to Jim Bendickson, property manager,
Palouse Mall</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2> Starting tomorrow, June 1, the
Wheatland Express bus will no longer stop at the Palouse Mall. For several
years, bus riders have been able to park their cars at the mall's huge parking
lot and take the bus to Pullman and WSU. Now, this will no longer be
possible.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2> The bus will now stop instead at
the University of Idaho gravel parking lot west of the Kibbie Dome. And
bus riders will have to pay $55 per year to be able to park there
year-round.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2> I believe your unwillingness to
accommodate the bus in your huge parking lot will have the following
results:</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2> *individual bus riders will be
inconvenienced and angry.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2> *bus ridership will drop as
commuters will choose to drive to Pullman instead of parking at the mall and
taking the bus</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2> *the number of shoppers at the
mall from Pullman (especially students) will drop significantly</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2> *more Moscow residents, who were
previously outraged by your decision to cut the trees along the highway in clear
violation of city ordinance, will decide to boycott the Palouse Mall to
show their opposition to this latest decision. </FONT></DIV>
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