letterstotheeditor
Town traffic ‘rational thinking’ needed
The thing that continues to be missed in all of these meetings where traffic control is an issue is that Town of Farragut relies way too much on what their “book” says, and it is getting in the way of rational thinking.
First, they need to forget about putting in a traffic light at a very successful three-way stop where Grigsby Chapel and Smith Road come together. It works. It works well. Let’s not fix what is not broken.
End of story.
The intersection between Saint John Court and Grigsby Chapel will have to be the site of a fatality before anybody throws the book away and gets down to the business of putting in a light.
The school principal is absolutely right. He recognizes the problem that every parent faces when they are trying to leave the school. Same issue after a Mass. Common sense says that a traffic light can be switched from a blinking red and a blinking yellow to an actual functioning light during those after-Mass and school-zone hours.
Then, the people exiting and trying to turn left out onto Grigsby Chapel will not be faced with the risk of being broadsided by someone exceeding the speed limit as they crest the hill.
This is where the problem is and where the money needs to be spent, and we need to stop talking about it, reading archaic books and consulting with TDOT, who still does not have enough sense to put sound walls on both sides of the Interstate where their beloved weigh station is.
Sometimes if we read too much we forget to use the gray matter between our ears God gave us.
~ Kim Frasch, Berkeley Park
