Designers don’t know Monroe

Why is it traffic designers ignore the fact our streets and highways were designed years ago never expecting the traffic loads currently in place? It’s obvious that whoever came up with the North Monroe Street redesign doesn’t use Monroe much, if at all.

This will not make things better, it will merely push traffic to other streets. Spokane Transit Authority buses will add to the futility of using Monroe. The businesses along that way will not be enhanced by this change, but probably will see a severe drop in business.

I use Monroe a half-dozen times a day and speak with more experience than anyone involved in this ludicrous idea. Instead of trying to better things with utopian dreams, let’s try reality.

As for the accident where the child was killed, I knew where that happened before it came up on the news. That area is known for people crossing in the middle of the street, not looking, as if traffic is supposed to magically stop.

There is nothing dangerous along this route if people merely pay attention and use their heads, but with redesigns like this, it’s obvious the planners didn’t.

Tom Peacock

Spokane