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Speed barriers are an overreaction

Re: The article "Crenshaw Lake Road gets barriers to deter speeders" in last Friday's North of Tampa:

This article was making reference to the speed tables that have been approved for Crenshaw Lake Road, as well as the likelihood of those same tables being place on Crystal Lake Road.

I doubt very much if the necessary petitions were achieved for this Crystal Lake Road Project. We live in Crystal Cove, on Crystal Lake Road, and have for over 10 years.

In those 10-plus years, we have yet to see or witness any accident. None! This effort to get speed tables on this road is an extreme overreaction to a problem that simply does not exist.

This is an insane waste of tax dollars to appease a very small minority of vocal residents. We "elected" to "not vote," nor send in a petition in the hopes that the necessary "minimum required to vote" would not be met. The result was that one of these vocal petitioners "showed up" at our front door to push and push and push for us to sign a petition.

He was a nice enough fellow, but he just could not understand, or accept, that we would not support his petition for these speed tables!

If he used this same wear-you-down tactic as he went door to door insisting that folks sign, my suspicion is that at least some of the folks who signed were simply older folks who relented to get him to go away.

This is an extremely unfair tactic that should not be allowed.

We got the petition in the mail.

We chose not to sign it - and the result is that these guys show up at the door to "insist almost" that you sign the petition.

I think these petitions for Crystal Lake Road, and perhaps others, should be looked at very closely. I have yet to talk to anyone out this way who thinks these reduced speed limits, road tables and raised crosswalks are either necessary or a good idea.

Gary Osborne, Lutz

[Last modified September 20, 2006, 13:19:48]