By Lisa Lucas Gardner, J.D. On May 28 at 2:27 PM
I hope whoever the engineer was who "designed" this intersection got fired and goes back to school to learn how to design a major intersection.
What has happened here? Didn't anyone else approve the plans before it was done? Didn't anyone forsee the traffic that was going to be increased with the "Woodyville" subdivisions? How can anything like this happen? I mean, this intersection has been messed up since the original flawed design was corrected and now it is still a mess. If you get caught at the light you probably can balance your checkbook (if anyone does that anymore) in the time you have to wait to get through. We have bumper to bumper traffic in the evenings backed up all the way done to the bypass. Someone is going to get rearended and killed down that ramp eventually.
Since this intersection was redone I have wondered about the tax dollared high paid engineers who who sat down and designed the lights and lanes. What were they thinking? I'm sure not about sitting in the lines backed up at the lights.
Can't a bridge or something be done to facilitate the traffic through there? What about requiring "Woodyville" to pay for the improvements over, across, or beyond the intersection before anymore development is allowed back there?
We taxpayers are beginning to feel the pinch of expansion, development, comercial growth, etc. How about getting the extra money that is needed from them and not us old time town residents? If we need more of something because of the newbies that are taking over our town, we welcome them but let them pay for it