Your Opinion: Concerns about truck situation

Dear Editor:

This citizen has written several letters regarding the truck situation on U.S. 50 West and there has been no letup concerning this matter. One of these days there will be some bad accidents with the possibility of death and injury. We believe the government body has been quite relaxed with regard to this situation.

Before Schellridge was cut off from motorists driving across the highway to and from there, the government was warned about the existing conditions. They chose to ignore these by saying they hadn't experienced many accidents there but from our location we experienced three in one day.

Currently these transportation trucks have been granted authority to carry heavier and heavier loads as they travel excessively at high rates of speed toward at all hours of the day.

And many more of the extremely heavier and longer trucks come screaming down the highways and streets carrying heavy loads of automobiles and other heavier equipment. It appears that many of our highways have begun to show the wear and the strain of this happening. Potholes and cracks in the streets appear with more frequency now.

It is quite obvious that the engineers for the department use guesswork when mapping out plans for locating business signs and lighting systems throughout this area. They have made a complete mess of the poles with their orange/yellow light bulbs. First they installed one pole of lights and then there were two. Now there are approximately 30 strung up and down the highway. It has begun to resemble the red light district that once existed for many years across from the railroad station.

And there are enough lights on these trucks now that they along with the lights on the poles seem appropriate for the fourth of July.

Although not giving it too much thought this landowner does have somewhat of a concern about the 179 ramp bordering her property. Both the long-winding driveway, the extensive front yard and the residence face this ramp. The highway department strung an abundance of guardrails along the frontage that certainly won't serve as a deterrent when two of the heavy oil-bearing tankers go down the ramp having their airbrakes malfunctioning with the machines slicing through the railing, hitting and destroying the tall oak trees in the process.

Doesn't common sense prevail anywhere anymore?

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