Widening Skeet Club adds to inconvenience
Kudos to Duke Power's ability to give respite to their trucks on a daily basis at the end of my driveway, leaving cigarette butts and assorted detritus while simultaneously honing their scorched-earth landscaping technique on helpless road-front property.
Skeet Club Road is being augmented to a four-lane road with a proposed 23-foot grassy median (for safety reasons) designed by Jeanie Tyson, the Department of Transportation's cerebral masterpiece.
I live on Skeet Club Road and will take great pleasure in going in the opposite direction of my desired destination, and the inevitable U-turn that follows will only add to my elated stupor. This, of course, might be complicated by my severe vertigo, which usually compels my U-turns to morph into figure eights. That won't matter though, by virtue of my stupidly gigantic SUV, which will roll over the bucolic median with all the grace and aplomb of a drunken rhino.
Actually, the median itself might be the most convenient lane in which to traverse.
Obviously, our neighbors on Johnson Street are far superior drivers and are adept at handling the immensely dangerous phenomenon that is the turn lane. God bless 'em.
Parris Lee Patton
High Point
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While they're at it can they come up to Greensboro and four lane Westridge?
Posted on April 1, 2006 7:48 AM
How do you really feel about it?
Posted on April 1, 2006 6:45 PM
Wow! If one just dropped in from outer space and read the News & Fishwrap, they would immediately think:
"People in High Point gripe about EVERYTHING!"
Posted on April 1, 2006 10:39 PM
DD,
at least we can agree that this is a fish wrap!
At last!
Posted on April 2, 2006 10:19 PM
I don't get it. The writer goes from making a valid gripe (even if it seemed trivial) to making me want to shake and yell at them. I know sarcasm when I read it, but all I was left with was the thought that the person was a moron for driving with vertigo and in a over large SUV. Somehow I bet that was not their point.
Posted on April 3, 2006 10:14 AM
THAT was funny. No, hilarious.
I understand the pain. If someone decides to take your entire front yard away because someone else decides that a median between two lanes would be aestetically pleasing to the eye (safety my tail), you'd be able to relate more.
I live on a busy road that was quiet when my house was built. I see new townhomes, condos, neighborhoods going up left and right and know that it is only a matter of time until they have to tear my house down to build bigger roads to carry people to their homes in the new developments.
It is quiet discouraging.
Posted on April 3, 2006 12:01 PM