The Bumps Weren't an End, They Were the Beginning

The Hansville Log reports that a Cross-Connector Road Feasibility Study Committee is being formed under Gerry Porter (638-1150). Such a road is attractive to bumpside people to divert traffic away from their houses, and it appeals to commuters weary of the bumps.

Old-time residents say that the county spent over a million dollars on a feasibility study in the '90s. The upshot was that it would devastate the last wild animal habitat in the north of the peninsula, it would create major water runoff problems, and it would cost a phenomenal amount---and the newspaper says the cost of asphalt will quadruple this year.

Based on the petitions for and against the bumps, 88% of Hansville wants the bumps removed and our arterial roads returned to arterial speed limits. That wouild solve the commute problems for 88% of Hansville, and it would cost very little compared to building a whole new road.

My neighbor was recently coming home on Twin Spits by the grocery and came up on a couple walking along their road. The car couldn't cross into the oncoming lane, so the car proceeded forward at a crawl. The lady sidestepped onto the wide shoulder there but the man insisted on walking in the road. As he walked past the barely-moving car, he smacked it repeatedly with a Steve Bauer election sign on a stick.

Notice a pattern here? The whiners on Twin Spits and Cliffside so screwed up our ride in and out of Hansville, and have so discouraged our hopes of majority rule returning the roads to us as they once were, that we're crazy enough to consider building a new road that avoids the bumps, leaves the whiners' roads empty for themselves only, and they do it all on the taxpayers' millions.