ComfortZone

The anony­mous Dun­deePark­ingLot people are being counter-​productive.

This week the back-​up from New­berg to Dundee has been bad as usual, but I observed sev­eral times already that the slow­ness is partly a result of those dumb “DROP DEAD” signs that the DPL people have put up. You see, there seems to be a spat going on between them and the New­berg Graphic News­pa­per (which I won’t go into now!) but the signs are get­ting lots of press.

While I agree with them that a regional bypass is the best solu­tion (con­nect McKay Road to McDou­gal Corner), I think they’re going about it in com­pletely the wrong way. Making the traf­fic slower is not a good way to make friends and get people on your side.

Today traf­fic crawled along at about walk­ing speed for the mile-​and-​a-​half drive. As soon as I passed the DPL signs, it sped up to 25, and I cruised on into my little vil­lage! People are slow­ing down to read, and it is making the back-​up even worse.

For more on why the little town of Dundee has it’s own big-​city traf­fic prob­lem, check out the map I posted here late last year.

There, I vented.