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Shouldn't have been surprised at most interest on CM yesterday The most popular story July 23, 2013: On Speeding Comments about She's faced cancer 5 times. But what does she fears most? Speeders. By Ed Waggener Proud uncle of Mitzi Bault I had a sense that Mitzi Bault's article on the danger of increased traffic speed wh yesterday would have high interest - but I was surprised when, on a day when readership was up 50% from the corresponding day one year before, her commentary had the highest readership of all - and again this morning, by the way. It's not just cranks like me who want motor vehicles to operate at a lower speed. It's the consensus. If you don't believe that, go to the cafes and country stores and listen. All over Adair County people are tired of the danger. That was the talk when I was at a store on Liberty Road this past week, from people of all ages. They want the state police to slow down traffic on 206, they want the county to slow down traffic on county roads. And the people of Columbia have been clamoring to stop the speeding for years. Granted, Mitzi has her own devoted following which could have accounted for a part of the popularity of her comments. But the nerve she hit was one people have been talking about, for what seems decades. It's just never gotten the critical momentum, before, to get the attention of people who can do something about it: State lawmakers, law enforcement, and local officials: Speeding. As for the so called improvement on Liberty Road by the Kentucky State Highway Department. In this case, we think Mitzi is right. The need there is to slow down traffic. A stop light is what is needed. Landowner rights is what is needed. For the most part, we applaud what the Kentucky Highway Department does. The recent implementations of turn left on yellow at Jamestown Street and Russell Road has virtually eliminated a bottleneck there. The turns are helping on KY 210 in Campbellsville, as well. What we'd like to see, however, is much closer work with local communities. If that were done, the cockamamie KHD directional signs on the public square in Columbia wouldn't have be just renovated, they would have been changed to be actually functional. If the KHD were listening to local concerns, City Hall would be able to use the lame excuse that traffic on the Public Square can't be subjected to a speed limit lower than 25 mph because State Law won't allow it! An absolute travesty, especially in the face of fatlities in too recent memory. Did Mitzi get attention of Frankfort. Maybe. Don't know of any other reason why CM Magazine would have had so many people reading it there yesterday. Maybe, just maybe, her article will focus attention on a real problem. One the whole county needs to look now. - CM This story was posted on 2013-07-24 06:41:07
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