Residents
should speak up when it comes to
traffic control
After
reading the article by Kathleen Stinson
in The Desert Advocate (“Partial cloverleaf
selected
for I‑17/Carefree Highway,” Sept.
6, 2006), I too am concerned over the interim
traffic controls and proposed partial cloverleaf
at the Carefree Highway and I‑17 interchange.
Do
we just love the traffic lights? Do we just
love the holding lanes? How about waiting
for a light to change when there isn’t another
car in sight ( i.e. evening and late night
hours)? How about waiting in a line of cars
for the light to turn green allowing only
a few cars to go through while the rest
have to wait for another cycle of lights?
This
is exactly what it will be like with a partial
cloverleaf. With a full cloverleaf there
will be no lights, no holding lanes, and
no waiting. If this project isn’t done right,
we will have the same situation we have
now. So why waste $17 million?
