GuelphToday received the following letter asking why grass is always brown and dying throughout the city.
What has happened to the city? Summer is almost here again and all the residential properties will dry up. Brown dead grass everywhere because of the watering bans that will be in place.
We should feel good that we are a part of the provincial growth plan, but things need to happen first. The city should be spending money on the infrastructure and bringing in more water. What i have seen is countless wasted dollars spent on common sense items. Speed signs and traffic lights are one of the wastes. At intersections throughout this town we see on average eight 40-km speed signs where there only needs to be one.
What we have all seen is two 40-km begins at the entrance to the streets and on the back side of the same post we see two 40-km ends signs. Immediately after that we see a stop sign. I figure the stop sign would trump the 40-km sign. Traffic signs are generally posted on the right and not left and right, front and back. The cost of seven of the eight signs could be spent to buy water pipes. (I realize its not that simple, but eight speed signs at one intersection?)
The cost of one traffic light is quite expensive, but if we could save a few bucks there too, why not? Has anyone been through the intersection at Stone Road and Gordon? Next time through you should count the lights. That intersection has twenty traffic lights. Plus the pedestrian crossing lights and signs to tell the cyclists to pay attention to the lights and signs and things. How much wasted money sits at that intersection? It cant be the city trying to protect itself from liability. That's why we have the Highway Traffic Act.
The act requires the motorist, cyclist and pedestrian to follow the rules. Simple process. It's actually quite distracting trying to look at all the lights, signs, traffic, cyclists and pedestrians.
Why not save the money and buy more water pipes?
Rick Warden
Guelph
