EDITOR – I refer to an article in a Sunday paper.
I live near the intersection of Brand and Cromwell Road and see very few people stopping at the stop street.
I asked the council to install speed bumps on the intersection because that would force people to reduce speed dramatically.
They vetoed that idea because of the low accident rate and the costs, plus the road is not in a certain class.
I then investigated and am prepared to pay for those plastic speed bumps to be installed (as my community donation) and all the council would have to do is erect a traffic sign indicating bumps. They did not agree with that idea either.
Clearly they are not interested in maintaining road safety and will wait for a fatal accident to happen or if a politician’s family is injured then there will be action. Asking Metro Police to enforce road rules is equally useless.
I believe my idea of speedbumps at stop streets is “thinking out the box” because it requires no supervision or monitoring and perhaps other businesses could do the same in a sort of “adopt a stop street” way.
There does not have to be speedbumps in the road just at the stop street.
Tony Ball
Bulwer Park Service Station in Glenwood.
