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<div>Ted,</div>
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<div>The last I heard, the Hawkins Companies proposed big box
development was at the SEPA review stage in the Whitman Co. Planning
Dept. A resubmitted SEPA application has been on their desk for a
couple of months now. The Whitman Gazette reported that Hawkins was
trying to work a water rights transfer with McKiernan Bros. Auto just
north of Pullman on the Palouse Rd to supply water to the development.
There are some very large problems with that approach but I won't get
into that now.</div>
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<div>I too noticed how nice it was to cross Washington, even with no
traffic light to slow traffic, when it was only two lanes. I'm
guessing that adding in the traffic signals changes the flow to a
pulse, makes for a traffic queue at each signal and otherwise makes it
appear like there's more vehicles on the road.</div>
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<div>Mark</div>
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<div>At 12:20 PM -0700 10/2/06, Ted Moffett wrote:</div>
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<blockquote type="cite" cite>Roger wrote:</blockquote>
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<blockquote>The question I pose is, why when we open more lanes of
travel does it<br>
seem to breed more cars? One would think having more lanes
of travel<br>
would dilute the volume. The movie axiom seems to apply. "If you
build<br>
it, they will come."<br>
<br>
Roger Hayes<br>
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<blockquote type="cite" cite>And as often happens on Vision2020, no
one yet has addressed your explicitly posed question.</blockquote>
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<blockquote type="cite" cite>One way to view why bigger roads and
highways encourage more traffic is from Business 101. Businesses
look to find a spot to situate where they expect they can grow, so
they take a look at the potential traffic flow, i.e. customer
flow. So when a road or highway is expanded to allow more
traffic, businesses will locate there hoping to draw more customers,
which, if the business advertises successfully and/or has services
and/or products the public wants, is exactly what happens, expanding
traffic.</blockquote>
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<blockquote type="cite" cite>I'm not sure this explains an increase in
traffic, if this has happened, on the new Washington St. section, but
perhaps the increased speed of traffic is explained by the nicer
smoother surface encouraging a little more weight on the gas
pedal.</blockquote>
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<blockquote type="cite" cite>But who doubts for a moment that the
proposed "mall" on the Moscow/Pullman Hwy., on the
Washington St. side, was planned with the expectation that once the
new expanded Moscow/Pullman Hwy. was completed, the traffic and
customer flow to the shopping center would be much larger than it
would have been with the old Moscow/Pullman Hwy?</blockquote>
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<blockquote type="cite" cite>I recall looking up the plans for this
proposed mall, which was discussed in some detail on
Vision2020, on a website that I cannot locate now...</blockquote>
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<blockquote type="cite" cite>Does anyone know if the mall on the
Washington St. side of the Moscow/Pullman Hwy. is still going
forward?</blockquote>
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<blockquote type="cite" cite>Ted Moffett<br>
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