<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto">Courtesy of today’s (October 9, 2017) Moscow-Pullman Daily News with thanks to Linda Moser.<div><br></div><div>— — — — — — — — — — — — — — — -</div><div><br></div><div><div><h1 itemprop="headline" class="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); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">Letter: Safety kicked to the curb</span></h1></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">I am of the "noisy minority" mentioned in a recent Letter to the Editor. As a first time homebuyer on Third Street just east of Hayes, I am not here to condemn nor condone the Third Street Bridge Project.</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);">What I am doing is questioning why I received a much-appreciated reassuring word from Walter Steed of the Moscow City Council that "traffic calming is part of the plan for the bridge," while at the Oct. 2 City Council meeting during the presentation by Les MacDonald, the suggestion to "back off" any funding and implementing of such safety measures was considered with little to no objection from the council.</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);">My entire purpose for attending the meeting was to gain clarity and perspective about the Third Street Bridge Project in the hope of hearing that accomplishing connectivity would coincide with installing necessary safety measures. My takeaway from the meeting was that a corridor analysis from Washington Street to Mountain View would be done by city staff to assess the effects of the bridge in terms of traffic flow and safety considerations, but that any real initiative to install traffic calming measures was being kicked to the curb for reconsideration at some later date. How very disappointing.</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);">Why, whenever this bridge comes back into focus, is the issue of public safety an afterthought rather than the first order of business? Am I missing something? Perhaps I just don't understand how the council can easily pass a budget that includes $580,000 for a bridge, but $0 for public safety in the wake of that bridge.</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);">I left the meeting disheartened by the lack of clear answers to what I believe are important questions.</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);">Linda Moser, Moscow</span></div></div><div><br></div><div>— — — — — — — — — — — — — — — -<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></body></html>