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The Nestle Project: Traffic
- Traffic on Highway 89 will significantly increase, making it much more dangerous and difficult to drive.
1. Traffic on Highway 89 will significantly increase, making it much more dangerous and difficult to use.
Highway 89 is already a crowded road in the summer and a hazardous road in the winter. However, many McCloud residents must commute twice daily over it. Nestlé's low estimate is that 300 additional trucks will be traveling to and from the plant every day over Highway 89. This actually represents 600 trips over Highway 89 every day, all day and night.
There will also be an unknown number of commuting workers. In its entire history as a mill town, McCloud has never experienced the kind of high traffic volumes that Nestlé would create.
Additionally, in the past, the through traffic to and from Reno was significantly lower. The facts show that Nestlé's claim of "low impact" traffic flows are false. Based on the experience of communities in other states, Nestlé will never voluntarily contribute the tens of millions of dollars that it would take to make Highway 89 a four-lane road and mitigate the impact. The costs of this impact will be born directly by the taxpayers.
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