Anthem neighborhood has become a raceway

I just read “Anthem connector road gets one step closer” (The Desert Advocate, April 26) and couldn’t agree more.

Our street (Silver Pine Drive) has become a raceway for residential and construction traffic. Residents and construction workers from Anthem Ridge Drive wanting to travel west and traffic from Wolf Run (traveling east) trying to reach Anthem Ridge Drive use Silver Pine as an access road. Silver Pine has blind curves on both ends and homes with 3‑4 children per home, not to mention golf carts and pedestrian traffic, which makes for a dangerous situation. Just turning in and out of our driveway is a hair‑raising experience.

There needs to be a direct connection for vehicular traffic, and not just golf carts, between Anthem Hills/Wolf Run and Anthem Ridge Drive. Forcing traffic, especially visitors, to find their own way from Wolf Run to Anthem Ridge Drive has created unsafe traffic volume on residential streets within Anthem Country Club.

For example, Anthem Club Drive provides direct access from the first to the second gates of the Country Club and Wolf Run runs from the second to the third gate. Why is there not another direct access road from Wolf Run/Anthem Hills Drive to Anthem Ridge Drive?

The most logical place for an access route would be near the Ironwood Clubhouse, which would also allow residents on the east side of the clubhouse access as convenient as for those living on the west side of the Ironwood.

The current situation is a liability issue, to say the least. The club needs direct access from Anthem Club Drive to Anthem Ridge Drive without going through narrow residential streets.

Sharon Marcou

Anthem