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<DIV><FONT size=4>There seems to be a lot of new, empty shop and office space
available.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=4>Does anybody have a fact based theory about why this is
so?</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=4>W.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message -----
<DIV style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; font-color: black"><B>From:</B> <A
title=starbliss@gmail.com href="mailto:starbliss@gmail.com">Ted Moffett</A>
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<DIV><B>To:</B> <A title=rhayes@turbonet.com
href="mailto:rhayes@turbonet.com">roger hayes</A> </DIV>
<DIV><B>Cc:</B> <A title=vision2020@moscow.com
href="mailto:vision2020@moscow.com">vision2020@moscow.com</A> </DIV>
<DIV><B>Sent:</B> Monday, October 02, 2006 12:20 PM</DIV>
<DIV><B>Subject:</B> Re: [Vision2020] downtown: Moscow/Pullman Hwy.
Mall?</DIV></DIV>
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<DIV>Roger wrote:</DIV>
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<BLOCKQUOTE class=gmail_quote
style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">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</BLOCKQUOTE>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>And as often happens on Vision2020, no one yet has addressed your
explicitly posed question.</DIV>
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<DIV>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. </DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>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. </DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>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? </DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>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...</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>Does anyone know if the mall on the Washington St. side of the
Moscow/Pullman Hwy. is still going forward?</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>Ted Moffett<BR> </DIV></DIV>
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