Marion Road reconfiguration being questioned
I stopped by the Notch this morning and got an earful about the logic of the Marion Road reconfiguration. Then I went for a ride to see it for myself. Unfortunately, I didn't have the benefit of an overhead view. Nonetheless, here are a couple pix of the ongoing work:
Of the residents with whom I spoke, they uniformly disagreed with the idea of making the problematic S-curve into (what appears to be) an even more acute S. They thought it should have been straightened with the road reconfiguration beginning at the stop sign at the corner of Huckins - here:
Tim White
18 comments:
This is just a thought but perhaps if motorists slowed down and payed attention to the speed limit then road wouldn't be an issue.
There's no proven road design that can fix the stupid.
This should be looked at again. I travel that road almost everyday and the new road doesn't appear to fix the problem.
How do you not make it an S turn? The town would have to buy a few houses and knock them down to get rid of the S turn. Idiotic complaints
all it does is give a developer a little extra frontage so a new house can be built
7:01 p.m. seems to have it figured out? If the road were not moved closed to Currier Woods could the house being built been permitted?
Really? Thats the thinking? The road work was approved LONG before the new house was permitted. How about the house next to it that is gaining land? Whats his angle? People need to stop thinking that everything is a conspiracy or a kick back.
i heard paul bowman paid eleventy billion dollars to have the road moved
I thought it was a gazillion dollars to build a $250,000 house
9:09, if "...The road work was approved LONG before the new house was permitted..." could it be that the house could not be permitted without the changes to the road first being approved?
Now if the house were built before the road work began then there would be no possible question concerning which came first, the chicken or the egg - - -
And of course if you look at the before and after road work you begin with a bad curve and you end with the identical bad curve you began with. Only real change is the bad curve has now been moved closer to Currier Woods. Go figure - - - Can't we straighten that crazy curve out?
Show me how when you need a 45 degree bend at Marion and Huckins and a straight-away ending with another 45 degree bend. Without buying every house between Huckins and Jarvis, there will always be an "S" turn in the middle. As for the building lot, that was an approved lot 10 years ago when I was looking to buy land so there was no need to add on to it. Next conspiracy please
10:39 p.m., conspiracy theory, your word?
Reality relative to just how impossible it is to straighten a dangerous curve by replacing it with the same dangerous curve just moved closer to Currier Woods shows clear dumbness on the part of whoever decided on the fix. If fixing the dangerous curve really required buying a bunch of houses that should have been the solution.
Doing something which does not improve the overall situation just wastes money and causes folks like you to start shouting about conspiracies. The Pool, Boilergate, road repair software and oh yes this Marion Rd curve fix are just of a few of the very poor investments the town has made with tax payer money.
Back to the drawing board,Joe Michelangelo, uh, I mean, bar napkin.
I travel that road every day and for the life of me I can't figure out why this was started in the first place. The new road doesn't solve anything, the town must know that because nothing has been done on the project for months. Are they going back to the drawing board?
Maybe if the town engineer lived in town and paid taxes in Cheshire, less money would be wasted.
"10:39 p.m., conspiracy theory, your word?" "causes folks like you to start shouting about conspiracies."
You are taking what was said out of context. I said "Next conspiracy please" meaning what is the next imaginary cover up some cry babies want to complain about. I have been saying that there is NO conspiracy in this case.
Instead of buying homes to tear down and rebuilding roadways, why not just close the road? Close it at Marion and Jarvis and again at Huckins and Marion. Nobody goes through the intersection and nobody can get hurt. Everyone can travel Rt 10 to Jarvis or W. Johnson to get to the other end. Safer and cheaper solution for everyone. Besides, if the road is so dangerous, why does everyone travel on it? There are other ways to go.
There is no problem with that road if people just slowed down a little. It's an old curve road and looks nice. It looked better when the horses roamed around. Sad to see it change.
No doubt trying to close a road like Marion would result in comments from public safety that if the road were closed emergency vehicles would no longer be able to use it. So instead our local government just had to do something to fix the bad curve. And because local government does what it does it isn't buying up houses, just buying up a bit of land. Probably giving a bit of land to some lucky home owner too. You just have to wonder about all the various costs associated with this too. If land is given to someone how is the windfall taxed going forward? Was the land being consumed paid for?
And, when the local government is done with this project, this year or next or the year after, etc, the same basic curve will still exist but it will now be offset from the original location. And the local government public works crews will have spent some of their time working on this until it is finally done. We will have traded a curve for the same basic curve and lots of expensive labor and materials.
That curve is so bad that even joggers sometimes lose control on the corner.
Even a street sweeper lost control and came to rest on that cleared patch of field no one ever uses.
A deer once tried to cross the road, spun out, and flipped over the rock wall.
But yeah, 3/27/2010 is right, folks should just slow down.
...did I mentioned that I once saw a canada goose, on its way back from Mixville, look down at the s curve, freak out, and land in that field at the intersection with Jarvis where cabbages are sometimes grown and never harvested? Are those protest cabbages meant to drive out the developments? They've done it several times and they just rot there...
Anyhow, it's curvy and needs attention.
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