"Low Bridge"."Yield" signs.
Brake lights coming lighting up on the car in front of you.
Someone yelling "Fire!" in a apartment house.
A prison tattoo on your date reading "3 Strikes and I'm Out. C'mon #3!".
These thing are all there to make one aware of something that may be dangerous, and your job is to react appropriately.
Ducking, slowing down, running out of a building, and pretending to be dead with the tattooed date, are all ways to avoid a problem. The warnings are merely that, warnings. They are only there to make the one aware so that they can make a decision.
Sometimes I am that "Yield" sign. I'm only there to make others aware of an issue, or a real, or potential problem. Sometimes I may be way off base, other times I am right on the money. I don't have the power to correct it, others do. I'm just the guy that will tell you your pants are on fire. What you do with the information is up to you. Hopefully, you will do the logical thing
It should, but as with most warnings, they are largely ignored.
Last week I wrote of the dangerous intersection at Haynes and Main Street. I am not sure why I wrote about it. I've written about Arnold and Main, New Boston and Route 20 before, and both of those intersections are treacherous. One was the scene of a double fatal accident a few years ago. I've written, and nothing has been done. No, I don't expect immediate change, but what I do expect as a resident of this town is acknowledgment, and a plan.
I expected it last week when I wrote about Haynes Street. I got a couple of emails from a selectman, and that was good, but nothing else. No acknowledgement of the problem from the TA, or the Board of Selectmen as a whole. I don't need the acknowledgement made directly to me, but something in the paper would be nice.
So far, I've heard bupkis.
I could go on a rant. I could yell and scream, and not get off the subject ever. I could become a general annoyance, but that is not what I do.
I offer the warning. It is now out there. It's public record. So, if the intersection is not corrected right now with all the equipment right here, and it is left as it is then where will the Town stand when something bad happens at the intersection?
We know where it will be standing. Up to its neck in quicksand, probably standing on some bricks.
Warnings, and responses.
Excuse me, Sturbridge, your pants are on fire.
Thank you, Wally, for telling it like it is.
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I saw that on the eastbound side, in front of the center school, are a couple of granite pieces that are knocked out of place, and chipped now. Please, BOS, and TA, will you at least tell us your plan?
ReplyDeleteHow about changing the name of Haynes Street? People coming on to Haynes St. might take notice if the street was renamed "Come into my Web," said the Spider to the Fly Boulevard.
ReplyDeleteSeems to me that you would get a better and quicker response if you wrote or called the source that has the answers.
ReplyDeleteI would not expect people at town hall to check local blogs for information or complaints from residents; viewing blogs while at work is a waste of taxpayer money.
But I would expect them to respond quickly to a letter or phone call from a resident that is directed to the appropriate person at town hall. If they did not respond, then there would be a reason to express dissatisfaction.
They were notified, and we've been waiting for any little sign of something being done to "mitigate" the problem. A warning? Anything?
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