Editor:
I am responding to theletter from Ms. Comerford (Coast Reporter, Sept. 4).
I am having a little trouble swallowing the idea that this new change to two lanes is safer for everyone. I can "relate" that it may be safer for making a left turn out of the school parking lot; however, to suggest re-routing the ferry traffic down Reed Road is not a solution that is safe in my mind.
This is a residential area where there are no side walks, crosswalks, traffic lights -no infrastructure for safety of any sort. Cars are now speeding by every two hours within three feet of kids on horseback, families pushing strollers and walking dogs, farm equipment, the cyclists (which use this road far more than the "highway" through Upper Gibsons). In addition, Ihave listened to other people fromresidential areas in Lower Gibsons, Gower Point Road and Pratt Road complaining about the increase in traffic and speeding because of the frustration at the traffic congestion created by the change to one lane each way through upper Gibsons. This is a tragedy waiting to happen.
The highway through Upper Gibsons is not a residential area, and already has the safety infrastructure in place to handle the volume of traffic travelling to and from the ferry terminal. I strongly feel that reducing the previous two lanes to one lane in each direction to make it "convenient" for some people (who I suspect do not commute on it every day) at the risk of residential safety is a rash and thoughtless decision. Think people of the consequences for all, not just for yourself.
Please put it back to the way it was, and I guarantee it will "calm the traffic" and makeGibsons' residentialareas safer again.
Laurel Lefay
Gibsons
