First Stop Lights, Now, No Turn On Red Going?
Posted: Tue Apr 03, 2012 3:22 pm
It seems the city has decided to do away with many of the "No Turn On Red" signs that
cause all of us to stop, pause, breathe in the air, and give the pedestrians a fair shot.
The reason? Cost, and the need to smooth traffic flow in the business sections.
REALLY? REALLY?
So we are willing to throw money away for a feasibility study on how big of a hotel we can
afford or attract to Lakewood. Never mind that the hotel industry has one of the best eyes
for potential targets for hotels of any business in the world.
But here we go, taking business plans out of the pockets and the safety of the residents. I
have no doubt now that Lakewood is looking for a way to spend the millions we might get
from the county on a hotel, something we so desperately need. Yeah let's give up our
parks, our safety crossing streets and even more for a motel that at best gets minor
overflow from the casino downtown, on its busiest nights of the year.
What really irks me is the city laughed at a plan to build an additional 50 - 200 acres off
the coast of Lakewood, which would have included a hotel and a reason to go to it, for
a crappy redesign of Lakewood Park, and Flower Baskets no longer used.
I am really starting to think of City Hall and some members of Council as desperate to
over-achieve, while being terminal under achievers, who simply hate the residents of
Lakewood. Hmmmm 3 strip malls in the dreams of council, a motel for a casino 10 miles
away, and all we have to do is look the other way as they close our parks and make our
streets less safe.
Let's not forget that a hotel did attempt to come here, but Mary Anne and Jay Foran said
no way, not in their neighborhood so it was halted. So I say if it is built, start at Clifton
Park or Webb and Edgewater. That way it will at least have a proper view of those wanting
it, but not in their neighborhood.
Time to share the burden.
.
cause all of us to stop, pause, breathe in the air, and give the pedestrians a fair shot.
The reason? Cost, and the need to smooth traffic flow in the business sections.
REALLY? REALLY?
So we are willing to throw money away for a feasibility study on how big of a hotel we can
afford or attract to Lakewood. Never mind that the hotel industry has one of the best eyes
for potential targets for hotels of any business in the world.
But here we go, taking business plans out of the pockets and the safety of the residents. I
have no doubt now that Lakewood is looking for a way to spend the millions we might get
from the county on a hotel, something we so desperately need. Yeah let's give up our
parks, our safety crossing streets and even more for a motel that at best gets minor
overflow from the casino downtown, on its busiest nights of the year.
What really irks me is the city laughed at a plan to build an additional 50 - 200 acres off
the coast of Lakewood, which would have included a hotel and a reason to go to it, for
a crappy redesign of Lakewood Park, and Flower Baskets no longer used.
I am really starting to think of City Hall and some members of Council as desperate to
over-achieve, while being terminal under achievers, who simply hate the residents of
Lakewood. Hmmmm 3 strip malls in the dreams of council, a motel for a casino 10 miles
away, and all we have to do is look the other way as they close our parks and make our
streets less safe.
Let's not forget that a hotel did attempt to come here, but Mary Anne and Jay Foran said
no way, not in their neighborhood so it was halted. So I say if it is built, start at Clifton
Park or Webb and Edgewater. That way it will at least have a proper view of those wanting
it, but not in their neighborhood.
Time to share the burden.
.