Traffic Committee Wants 4-Way at Griffin/Gateway. Why?
First of all let me say this, and I told him the same thing, not that he cares what I thnk. It's painful for me to listen to Pete Doragh give a traffic committee report to the full board of supervisors while Bob Nielson chairs the board. It's demeaning for Doragh to be doing this and I hope he'll stop soon....
Listening to Doragh report on traffic cop items is like seeing Johnny Damon go from the New York Yankees to the Detroit Tigers. It's just out of place. Doragh, who I like to say is on hiatus from the board, is reporting on items that he knows will never happen. My only conclusion is that he's staying "in the loop" so he can run for Bob Nielson's seat later this year. Why else would he be on the traffic committee?
At the last G.S.D. meeting, Doragh reported that the traffic committee voted to send a letter to Lee County to put a 4-way stop at the corner of Griffin and Gateway Boulevard. Mr. Gore, we just wasted another tree and we apologize sir. Doragh knows he'll never see those stop signs in his life time. The day those stop signs go up I will eat an entire cheesecake.
The confusion over who owns the roads now and who will own them in five years trumps anything the Gateway traffic committee can ever get done on those roads. There's more of a likelihood that my 12-year old daughter will be married with children before stop signs go up anywhere on Gateway or Griffin. Be serious Pete. Will all due respect Pete, which you deserve more than you know who, how were you able to give that report with a straight face? The traffic committee has no power on those issues and everyone knows that.
With WCI in bankruptcy and Lee County not begging for any more expenses by taking over the roads, nothing is going to change. It might change if someone gets hit by a car. Lee County can always say they see no outcry from residents about these stop signs. And they would be correct. I've been on the traffic committee. We could have held out meetings in a phone booth.
What makes 3 or 4 or 5 traffic committee members think Gateway residents want a stop sign right in the middle of Gateway Boulevard? Did I miss that survey? Did I miss that public meeting? We all drive 35 and we can wait a few extra minutes to make a turn in that intersection. Leave us a lone and stop trying to find something just to make the committee seem like its needed. The additional congestion comes when school kids are added to the mix and that last for a few hours a day. If the traffic committee wants to be helpful they should stand out on Gateway Boulevard wearing orange vests when the school is letting out and help kids cross the street. Imposing new rules and regulations is not the only way to be helpful in a community. Leave the boulevard alone. It works fine.
