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Happy to see focus on traffic safety, predestrian safety Speeding is not about one person, it is about "us" Comments re article 60861 Shouldn't have been surprised at most interest on CM yesterday By Billy Joe Fudge For the last several years I've felt like "the voice of one crying in the wilderness" concerning speeding around our Downtown Square, inside the city limits and beyond. However, it is not about me, it is about us. A couple of years ago I attended a city council meeting to present historical data concerning fatal accidents on our Downtown Square and to point out that 25 mph around the Square is too fast. At that time I also pointed out that posted speed limits around the Square are confusing in that those limits are actually 25mph from Burkesville, Greensburg and Campbellsville Streets; 35mph from Jamestown Street and 45mph from Russell Road. Additionally at that meeting, I pointed out safety concerns about two lanes of traffic around the Square and the yield signs entering the Square encouraging motorists who are focused upon merging with those two lanes of traffic to not stop at cross walks even when pedestrians are either on or entering those cross walks. I was promised that contact would be made to the Kentucky Department of Transportation seeking to have these public safety deficiencies corrected. To this date I've heard nothing. I can only assume that either the folks at the local level or the folks at the state level have dropped the ball. God forbid that anything as tragic as the two fatalities I cited at that meeting should happen again but once a menace to public safety is pointed out, those in the position of responsibility for removing that menace can be in a very precarious position concerning charges of negligence. We in Columbia, Adair County and greater South Central Kentucky have always prided ourselves about how caring and responsive we are in responding to those in need during times of crisis. Please, let us all step up to the plate in that same caring and responsive spirit to take the steps needed to maybe, just maybe, prevent a time of crisis. - BILLY JOE FUDGE This story was posted on 2013-07-24 08:36:54
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