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Traffic calming a joke

Mon., Nov. 17, 2014

Regarding the “calming” intersection on Montgomery Avenue and Madison Street:

What a waste of our taxpayer money. The detour went by my house for a few weeks and there were so many almost-collisions due to this.

I finally went through the calming intersection and got to laughing. Really? The road engineer on these projects needs to sit on my front porch and watch all of the corners. They are all the same.

People are driving too fast. Slow down!

Marilyn Allen

Spokane

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