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2nd prize: “I’m scared as well kids,” by Phillip Ray
3rd prize: “Crownation!,” Bob DeBuhr
All of our winners will receive an “I Survived the Roundabout” T-shirt . . . as soon as its done.
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I think the point here is that the roundabout and the sidewalks are a great pain in the popo to the public at the moment as the best way to deal with it is to grin and bear it. A little humor helps a great deal.
As to the city growing, of course it will, but not at any great speed.Until we have some sort of transportation(public) to Seattle, a medical facility, and a real reason to retire in Ocean Shores against say Hawaii, Florida, and Arizona, we will move along at a slow speed. I really don’t think that sidewalks and a roundabout will contribute much to residents or tourists
For your information, Chance A La Mer in the downtown area has had a sidewalk all this time. It runs from the beach access all the way to McDonalds. There was also one on the other side.
Nothing is being done to Point Brown where all the other retail is.
People questioned the idea, but were ignored. That is all a citizen can do. That is something they teach in Texas too. In fact, there are not going to be sidewalks down the greenbelt in the middle until they get more money.
By the way, do you know the number of accidents at the 4 corners over all these years?? Few if any. Also, all this talk of growth. We are now at less than 5000 people here. We have only grown about 70 to 100 people a year. Our density is not that great. Even with all of the “improvements” we still look like a strip mall town. Until we can figure out a theme, concept and really make the town bike and pedestrian friendly, we will be the same. Where are the tables in front of the Convention Center or even in the new median plan for people to sit and relax? Benches? Anything but asphalt parking lots? People want to raise the speed limits so they can hit people that can no longer walk along the side of the road because we did not put enough gravel to equate a sidewalk. Oh, they will be doing it while talking on their cell phone in that rush to go nowhere.
May I say, there were no accidents in this intersection before it was torn up and converted to be a roundabout. BTW Humor goes a long way to alleviate stress, this is why we celebrate the absurd.
I don’t believe that I have never seen a newspaper that is so one sided and against a project that is going to make improvements to the downtown area. I just wonder if when there are no accidents, the round about proves to be very effective at the intersection, and tourism is up because people are actually able to walk around the downtown area because there are sidewalks are all these people that are negative now with their comments (including the editor of this newspaper) going to admit their mistake or will they move on to something else to complain about that involving what the city is doing. If all of these people seem to have the solution to problems then why are there so many city council positions that are on the ballot unopposed. As my dearly departed parents said when they raised me in Texas, if you have a solution to the problem then present it or attempt to do something about it. If not then shut up and deal with it!!! I think there is a vocal minority in this city that needs to just shut up and deal with this construction and accept the change that we are growing and there is not a thing you can do about it!!!