<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div><span></span></div><div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div><span></span></div><div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div><span></span></div><div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div>"A responsibility ignored is an action completed."</div><div>- Moscow City Council mission statement</div><div><br></div><div>Courtesy of today's (November 22, 2016) Moscow-Pullman Daily News.</div><div><br></div><div>--------------------------------</div><div><br></div><div><div class="subscriber-preview" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><h1 itemprop="headline" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 42px; margin: 0px 100px 0px 0px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.1; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0);">Residents push for bridge on 3rd Street</h1><h2 itemprop="alternativeHeadline" class="subhead" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.1; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); margin: 10px 100px 10px 0px; font-size: 24px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0);">Moscow council tables talk of pedestrian/bicycle span until mid-2017</h2><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; line-height: 27px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Moscow residents have shared their support of a pedestrian/bicycle bridge over Paradise Creek on East Third Street at City Council meetings for many months — years even — and the item reached the agenda again Monday night.</span></p></div><div class="subscriber-preview" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; line-height: 27px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">While most or all of the audience members favored constructing a non-vehicular bridge, City Council members voted to table discussion of such a span until possibly next summer.</span></p></div><div class="subscriber-preview" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; line-height: 27px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Councilman Jim Boland moved to direct staff to research cost alternatives to construct a pedestrian/bicycle bridge and have staff report its findings by the end of January 2017, but — though some of the audience applauded — no councilors seconded it.</span></p></div><div id="tncms-region-article_instory_top" class="tncms-region " style="box-sizing: border-box;"></div><div class="subscriber-only" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; line-height: 27px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">City Supervisor Gary Riedner said the end of January would be “extremely aggressive.” He said the city would have to remove staff from grants the city has to bid in the spring and redirect their time to researching details of a pedestrian/bicycle bridge.</span></p></div><div class="subscriber-only" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; line-height: 27px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Before residents commented, Boland asked the audience members to stand — first in favor of a non-vehicular bridge and then those opposed to it. About 20 people stood in support of it and nobody stood in opposition.</span></p></div><div class="subscriber-only" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; line-height: 27px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">“This could be an exciting amenity to Moscow,” said Nels Reese, a Moscow resident. “Could be something unique and intriguing to do and we would work with you and try to support as much as we possibly we can.”</span></p></div><div class="subscriber-only" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; line-height: 27px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Reese said he represents Citizens for a Livable Community, a group of Moscow volunteers who try to keep the city storied and historic, and said the group has more than 300 petitioners in town that support construction of a pedestrian/bicycle bridge, and it will have 500 soon.</span></p></div><div class="subscriber-only" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; line-height: 27px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">“A lot of high school students cross the creek by climbing down and then climbing up and carrying their bicycles over their head,” said Joann Muneta, a Moscow resident.</span></p></div><div class="subscriber-only" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; line-height: 27px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">She said teachers at Moscow High School told her they think the school’s environmental club, which has at least 30 members, would be interested in working on the project.</span></p></div><div class="subscriber-only" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; line-height: 27px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">“I think if the city shows the leadership that the community will come together and the young people will come together and that will make it even more of an exciting project and a unique project for Moscow,” she said.</span></p></div><div id="tncms-region-article_instory_middle" class="tncms-region " style="box-sizing: border-box;"></div><div class="subscriber-only" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; line-height: 27px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Ben Calabretta, chair of the Moscow Transportation Commission, said the commission supports a vehicular bridge but that if a vehicular bridge cannot be built within the next eight years, then the commission would want a pedestrian/bicycle bridge built.</span></p></div><div class="subscriber-only" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; line-height: 27px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The city learned in August that the Transportation Investment Generating Economic Recovery grant it applied for, which would help pay for construction of a vehicular bridge on East Third Street, was not granted.</span></p></div><div class="subscriber-only" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; line-height: 27px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">“The discussion of a bicycle/pedestrian bridge on Third Street right-of-way across Paradise Creek has been milling around among the City Council since about 2005,” Riedner said.</span></p></div><div class="subscriber-only" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; line-height: 27px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">He said there are a number of pedestrian/bicycle bridges in Pullman so Moscow requested the city’s designs for such bridges. Riedner said the city received Pullman’s designs Friday.</span></p></div></div><div>--------------------------------</div><div><br></div><div><b>"Third Street Bridge" </b>(Moscow City Council Session - November 21, 2016)</div><div><a href="http://www.MoscowCares.com/112116_10_ThirdStreetPedBridge.htm">http://www.MoscowCares.com/112116_10_ThirdStreetPedBridge.htm</a><br><br><div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Seeya 'round town, Moscow, because . . .</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"Moscow Cares" (the most fun you can have with your pants on)</span></div><div><a href="http://www.moscowcares.com/" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font color="#000000">http://www.MoscowCares.com</font></a></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </span></div><div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Tom Hansen</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Moscow, Idaho</span></div></div><div> </div></div></div></div></div></div></body></html>