Editor:
On Thursday afternoon it took me 25 minutes to get from the Independent supermarket to Selma Park Road. When they’re not messing with the highway, it takes me five minutes.
As I sat in my car with my frozen food melting, I counted 100 cars coming the other way before our line was finally allowed to crawl ahead.
The stellar flagging crew had traffic backed up from Selma Park Road, where work was in progress, to Wharf Road. Earlier in the day when I was heading south, traffic was backed up from Selma Park Road all the way to Davis Bay.
We have one narrow, inadequate highway on the Sunshine Coast with no possible detours along most of the way. A lot of traffic is heading towards a ferry at either end. Wouldn’t it make more sense to let maybe two-dozen vehicles go in one direction and then the same number in the other? Isn’t there a “flagging school” where flaggers are taught to try to keep traffic moving as much as possible?
Cecilia Ohm Eriksen, Selma Park
