[Vision2020] Public Works Meeting

[J Ford]

I watched the PW Committee meeting today and wondered just who the City 
Staff thinks they work for.  It certainly did not look like they were 
working for the safety and/or good will for the citizens.  When the 
discussion turned to a need for a four-way Stop sign on "D" and Mt. View, it 
got kinda muddled as to why it was such a question - the safety of the 
children and drivers who use that intersection SHOULD be the primary 
concern.  But even the Mayor seemed to think that the three or four people 
who spoke up for the Stop sign were off base.  And Walter Steed had some 
interesting notes but even he seemed confused about his stand - 40(+) people 
in the space of 45min for one intersection is nothing to ignore and yet he 
thinks it is.

The fact that several people pointed out there are now four/five different 
places of congregating children and families in that immediate area should 
dictate the City needs to be cognizant of the safety issue that people face 
every day at that intersection.  As two people pointed out, the area is 
expanding and more people are moving into the area almost daily.  All this 
does is increase the traffic in and out of the area and it should make sense 
to people that that traffic needs to be better controlled.

I would hope the entire City Counsel saw it as the Committee Members seemed 
to feel - the need is there and it would behoove the City to, for once, use 
preventative medicine BEFORE we have a child or car flattened.

BTW - did anyone realize that the speed limit on that road is 35mph!?  Seems 
a might fast to me.  Especially considering there are children in that area 
rather heavily during a major part of the year and during the daytime.



J  :]

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