Re: Nineteenth Street Overpass to Close Archived Message
Posted by Wyld_Roze on June 28, 2011, 9:06 pm, in reply to "Re: Nineteenth Street Overpass to Close"
Whoops, I'm sorry I didn't drink the Granite City Kool-aid and wear the rose colored glasses, so that I could join the I love everything GC does group, too! Good grief. Yes, it is an inconvenience. Yes I'm going to get over it, but there is nothing wrong with venting a little bit about the poor planning. I was irritated BEFORE the closing of the overpass. Here's a question, do you live in that area? Do you have to deal with it? Do you have to deal with it multiple times a day? What would I have done? First of all, I would have stuck to the original planning of 20th street, where it stayed open and curved off so that the big trucks could turn, and kept it straight for the people to go down Missouri Ave. There would still be enough lane to wait on a train without blocking the intersection, and most of the traffic wouldn't have to turn onto Missouri while trying to avoid the idiot who didn't bother to get back into his own lane. The big trucks wouldn't have to worry about crushing any cars as they turned either. Now, I know that they planned on closing 22nd street down. I still don't understand that. It makes more sense to keep that one open as well so that not ALL the traffic ends up at the intersection. That's what I would have done. However, even if they just kept with the plans, I'd be happy. As it stands now, the intersection is a mess, I'm still going over the same sets of tracks, (it's just taking longer to do it), and they're still stopping the train on those tracks and leaving them for long periods of time. I don't mind being inconvenienced when it makes sense or clears up other traffic problems. When it doesn't solve any problems, and even worse, creates MORE problems, then yes. I'm going to vent my frustrations.
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