Letters To The Editor

Sat., Jan. 3, 1998

Cul-de-sacs for all!

Wouldn’t it be great if we all could live on a cul-de-sac? Hardly any traffic and certainly very little speeding.

But the reality of turning one of Ponderosa’s few accesses into a cul-de-sac, as described in the article “County questionnaire targets Forest Meadows traffic problem” (Valley Voice, Dec. 25), is that this would only create a traffic problem for someone else.

If anything, the people who live east of Bowdish Road on 44th Avenue would have more traffic on their street than the approximately 1,460 cars per day now traveling on Bowdish. That traffic would also have to deal with a sharp, narrow curve on Sands, going by a large Ponderosa day care.

Have the people who live on Bowdish stopped to consider this, or do they care?

As a homeowner on 44th for 11 years, I understand the need for motorists to slow down. Maybe the people on Bowdish should spend time on our street to see how people obey the speed limit.

Julie Ryen said she “did not buy a house on an arterial.” Then she should have done her homework and found some place else to live, because when you buy your home you buy the whole package. Laurie Lancaster Spokane

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