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Letters to the editor - Wednesday, March 10, 2010

Anonymous The Kokomo Tribune Tue Mar 09, 2010, 10:18 PM EST

State police should patrol intersection

I know I am a little slow at writing this, but I am greatly concerned over the running of the red light on U.S. 31 and Ind. 18. In a five-week period, there were five accidents at this intersection – three which there could have been loss of life.

Semis and cars disregard this light several times daily. The caution light is four seconds long before turning red. It takes a vehicle traveling 60 mph five seconds to travel the distance of four telephone poles, which is approximately 250 yards.

I have contacted the Indiana State Police on this matter twice before, and they tell me that they are “short on manpower,” which may be. But it only takes one officer to make several arrests at this intersection, where it takes six men to carry a coffin.

If five seconds were added to the yellow caution light on U.S. 31, there would be no excuse for anyone to run this light on red. Even semis with 80,000-pound loads could stop in that amount of time.

Again, several arrests of drivers disregarding this light, with stiff fines, would put this practice to a halt.

James Fewell, Bennetts Switch

Promised ‘change’ isn’t what we need

Although our country has not gone beyond the point of no return, we are heading in that direction.

During the campaign of the 2008 presidential race, we heard many promises. The one promise that was emphasized the most was the promise of change.

After eight years of the Bush administration, the promise of change was one that excited voters above all others. And we got change, but it was just opposite of what we interpreted it to be.

There is little doubt that if a poll was taken today, a large majority of Americans would say they are worse off today than they were when G.W. Bush left office. According to Webster, this could be defined as pitiful.

Frank Grey, Elwood

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