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<DIV><FONT size=2>Especially the S-curve right after the bridge over the river
in CDA.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2>w.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV>
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style="FONT: 10pt arial; BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; font-color: black"><B>From:</B>
<A title=thansen@moscow.com href="mailto:thansen@moscow.com">Tom Hansen</A>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=vision2020@moscow.com
href="mailto:vision2020@moscow.com">Moscow Vision 2020</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Cc:</B> <A title=marilynbeckett@gmail.com
href="mailto:marilynbeckett@gmail.com">Marilyn Beckett</A> ; <A
title=chicory@wildblue.net href="mailto:chicory@wildblue.net">Borg
Hendrickson</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Wednesday, March 23, 2011 8:46
AM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> [Vision2020] Perhaps Now the
Moscow City Council Will Give a Damn</DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV>"The loads - up to 66 of them - would likely go through
Moscow."<BR><BR>It should also prove interesting to see how these loads
maneuver through<BR>Coeur d'Alene and enter I-90.<BR><BR>Courtesy of today's
(March 23, 2011) Moscow-Pullman Daily
News.<BR><BR>-------------------------------------------------------<BR><BR>Loads
shifting to I-95: ITD considers plan to send half-size ExxonMobil<BR>oil gear
through Moscow to I-90<BR><BR>The Idaho Transportation Department is reviewing
a proposal from Imperial<BR>Oil/ExxonMobil to reduce the size of 33 megaloads
at the Port of Lewiston<BR>so they can be shipped up U.S. Highway 95 to
Interstate 90.<BR><BR>The loads - up to 66 of them - would likely go through
Moscow.<BR><BR>A crew of around 100 is at work on the megaloads, although it
was not<BR>clear Tuesday exactly how much they would be reduced in length,
width or<BR>height.<BR><BR>"Imperial Oil/ExxonMobil is currently cutting 33
loads that are located at<BR>the Port of Lewiston in half," said Mollie
McCarty, ITD governmental<BR>affairs manager, in an email.<BR><BR>The cost of
cutting the 33 loads at the Port of Lewiston is about $500,000<BR>each, she
said in the email, but ITD is not aware of the timeline to<BR>complete these
reductions.<BR><BR>Cutting all 33 loads in half could cost ExxonMobil $16.5
million.<BR><BR>The ITD has begun reviewing the proposal to use Highway 95,
though a fixed<BR>route has not yet been determined, ITD officials
said.<BR><BR>"I know that we're at the very initial part of that," said
McCarty. "We're<BR>in the early stages right now for reviewing this
plan."<BR><BR>At the same time, a full-size test shipment - much like the
highly<BR>contested ConocoPhillips megaloads - still is slated to startup
U.S.<BR>Highway 12 to assess whether ExxonMobil megaloads can safely make the
same<BR>journey, possibly more than a hundred times in the future.<BR><BR>The
test shipment - which is 24 feet wide, 208 feet long, 30 feet high
and<BR>weighs 508,000 pounds - is scheduled to leave the Port of Lewiston
Monday<BR>night and is the only load ITD has approved for travel. The oil
company<BR>would like this to be the first of 114 such shipments destined for
the<BR>Kearl Oil Sands project in Alberta, Canada.<BR><BR>ITD spokesman Adam
Rush said the test shipment will be used to decide<BR>whether movement along
the curvy highway is manageable and if any problems<BR>arise that need to be
addressed. The trip is expected to take three days.<BR><BR>Meanwhile, two
ConocoPhillips megaloads destined for a Billings, Mont.,<BR>refinery may not
make it there until April, according to a report from the<BR>Missoulian. The
second load left Lewiston on Feb.
17.<BR><BR>--------------------------------------------------------<BR><BR>Seeya
round town, Moscow.<BR><BR>Tom Hansen<BR>Moscow, Idaho<BR><BR>"The Pessimist
complains about the wind, the Optimist expects it to change<BR>and the Realist
adjusts his sails."<BR><BR>-
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