Questions wisdom of road changes
Coming home from work today, I, like many others, had the experience of being lined up for blocks on Alabama Street between Cornwall and James. I don’t think many of us are surprised that contracting four lanes down to two lanes on an already busy street has caused these type of delays. Why, then, would someone decide to spend all this money and time to make traffic move more slowly, and consequentially, burn more gas and send more emissions into the air? The only answer I can come up with is this is the type of thing that happens when people in authority don’t make decisions based on reality, but instead on what they would like reality to be.
Steve Chronister, Bellingham
This story was originally published November 2, 2015 at 4:01 PM with the headline "Questions wisdom of road changes."