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Right on! How dare a private company transport their own
equipment through our town on public roads when there are people
here who don't like it!<br>
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Paul<br>
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On 12/18/2013 05:03 AM, Moscow Cares wrote:<br>
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<div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><b>EFF 'EM ! ! !</b></div>
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<div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">Courtesy of today's
(December 18, 2013) Moscow-Pullman Daily News.</div>
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<h1 class="title" style="margin: 0px; color: rgb(51, 51,
51); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;
background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Megaloads might
roll through Moscow in January</h1>
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<p class="subheadline alt-text2" style="color: rgb(153, 153,
153); margin: 0px; font-family: Helvetica, Arial,
sans-serif; font-size: medium; font-style: normal;
font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing:
normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align:
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-webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227,
0.235294); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;
-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255,
255, 255);">Trucks, loads to be 472 feet long and weigh
800 tons</p>
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153); margin: 0px; font-family: Helvetica, Arial,
sans-serif; font-size: medium; font-style: normal;
font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing:
normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align:
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255, 255);"> </p>
<p style="outline: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 18px;">The
Idaho Transportation Department might allow three megaload
deliveries of oil field equipment to travel through Moscow
en route to Missoula, Mont., and eventually the Alberta,
Canada, tar sands.</p>
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<p style="outline: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 18px;">One
vehicle and its equipment load would weigh 1.6 million
pounds total and be 472 feet long, 27 feet wide and 16
feet high, according to a press release sent out by the
ITD.</p>
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<p style="outline: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 18px;"><span
style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color:
rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">State officials aren't "being
fully transparent" about the route or when the cargo is
expected to reach certain areas because they want to avoid
controversy, said Helen Yost, an organizer with Wild Idaho
Rising Tide, a group based in Moscow.</span></p>
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<p style="outline: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 18px;"><span
style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color:
rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">About a dozen protesters came out
to show their displeasure when four smaller megaloads came
through Moscow in mid-October, for example.</span></p>
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padding: 0px;">
<p style="outline: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 18px;"><span
style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color:
rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"And we're definitely going to
protest this time," Yost said about the planned January
deliveries.</span></p>
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<p style="outline: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 18px;"><span
style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color:
rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Moscow city officials found out
about the plan Tuesday to route the vehicle along
Washington Street as part of its U.S. Highway 95 leg of
the trip. Specifically, the route would move north on U.S.
95 from Lewiston - during which time it would come through
Moscow - then move on to Interstate 90 at Coeur d'Alene.</span></p>
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<p style="outline: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 18px;"><span
style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color:
rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The interstate isn't built for
such a load to enter certain spots, so temporary ramps are
being constructed.</span></p>
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padding: 0px;">
<p style="outline: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 18px;"><span
style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color:
rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Traffic control also would affect
residents in Coeur d'Alene. The haul would be required to
make frequent stops to accommodate other drivers
throughout the trip.</span></p>
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<p style="outline: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 18px;"><span
style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color:
rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Oversize hauls move very slowly,
and this one might even only travel a few miles an hour,
said Bill Belknap, the Moscow's development director.</span></p>
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<p style="outline: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 18px;"><span
style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color:
rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The cargo would exceed the length
of some shorter city blocks in Moscow, and it's at least
double the size of others that have traveled through the
community in the past, thus "substantially larger," said
Les McDonald, the city's public works director.</span></p>
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<p style="outline: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 18px;"><span
style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color:
rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">He noted before a permit is
issued for the oversized load to move through Idaho, state
officials will determine what the hauler, Mammoet USA
South, needs to ensure the massive cargos aren't putting
too much weight on roads and freeways.</span></p>
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<p style="outline: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 18px;"><span
style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color:
rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Requiring a large number of
wheels and axles to support the cargo allows for the
weight to be better distributed and less stressful on
roads, he and ITD spokesman Adam Rush explained.</span></p>
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<p style="outline: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 18px;"><span
style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color:
rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Washington Street is
state-controlled, but some of the infrastructure that lies
underneath - specifically water, wastewater and stormwater
pipes and related hardware - is owned by the city.</span></p>
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padding: 0px;">
<p style="outline: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 18px;"><span
style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color:
rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">There will be a public meeting
4-7 p.m. Thursday at the ITD District 1 office in Coeur
d'Alene. Focus of this event is on the portion of the
route that includes creating a temporary on-ramp that
would allow enough space for the huge shipment to reach
Interstate 90, however.</span></p>
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<p style="outline: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 18px;"><span
style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color:
rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The cargo hauling is expected to
occur only between the hours of 10 p.m. and 5 a.m., so it
wouldn't affect as many drivers as it would during more
common travel times, Rush emphasized.</span></p>
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<p style="outline: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 18px;"><span
style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color:
rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Much smaller loads were set to
travel along scenic U.S. Highway 12 in Idaho this past
summer. These plans were stopped after only one truck made
the trip because of a lawsuit filed in federal court in
Boise by the group Idaho Rivers United and the Nez Perce
Tribe.</span></p>
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<p style="outline: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 18px;"><span
style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color:
rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The first of three loads planned
by hauler Omega Morgan for a division of General Electric
is slowly traveling across Oregon toward southern Idaho.
Protesters and bad weather have caused delays. The
Associated Press reported that 16 protesters were arrested
late Monday in John Day, Ore., after chaining themselves
to a car and trailer to slow the Alberta-bound cargo down.</span></p>
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<div>Seeya 'round town, Moscow, because . . .</div>
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<div>"Moscow Cares" (the most fun you can have with your pants
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<div>Tom Hansen</div>
<div>Moscow, Idaho</div>
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<div>"<span style="font-size: medium;
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0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128,
180, 0.230469); ">There's room at the top they are telling
you still</span><span style="font-size: medium;
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<span style="font-size: medium; -webkit-tap-highlight-color:
rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color:
rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469);
-webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180,
0.230469); ">But first you must learn how to smile as you
kill </span><br style="font-size: medium;
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<span style="font-size: medium; -webkit-tap-highlight-color:
rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color:
rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469);
-webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180,
0.230469); ">If you want to be like the folks on the hill."</span></div>
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