Photo Essay: One last wreck?
Published by Jeff January 29th, 2007 in News.
Just days before the new traffic light is turned on Highway 425 North in front of the Northpark Shopping Center, the busy section of street claims another wreck. The wreck occurred Saturday morning.
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I’m glad to see the traffic lights going up at the Wal-Mart entrance, but I wonder if anyone has given any thought as to how the folks at Barton’s and Chapman Rd. are going to get out onto the highway? It looks to me like there will be a constant line of traffic waiting on the lights to change blocking their way during the daytime hours.
As much as I’m likely to sound like a naysayer, I really am glad to see some sort of traffic control device in front of Wal-Mart. However, there is no way for this light to be totally effective.
Even though Wal-Mart constructed a right-in/right-out on the south entrance, people still turn left there. Also, you can expect traffic to increase in the Wal-Mart and North Park parking lots as people use Wal-Mart Access Road, Dearman Drive and the Circle N and Taco Bell driveways to avoid the traffic light.
Can we say a little late.
If they had of looked at this before all the expansion on the highway took place when they first built wal mart things would have been a lot different. NO VISION on the city planners parts. If they had of looked at this and seen what was going to be in the future, they would have had Macdonalds moved over and then the light would have met right at the intersection of Chapman road and 425 and a walmart entrance. But again, there seems to be no vision in this town as to what can be ahead in years to come. Come on people start looking at the future when things are built, what it is going to be like and how it will be affected IF and when the town does get busines’s or industry.
Steve is dead-on with his comments. However, I know that Monticello is one of (if not the only) city of the first class in the entire state without zoning… Thus, there is no Zoning or Planning Department to offer vision as areas in the city develop.
Monticello is now suffering the consequences of not having a planning and zoning body in the late 1980s/early 1990s when the Wal-Mart project was first planned. So, what consequences will the community have to endure in the year 2024 for not having a P&Z authority today.
It’s one thing to make mistakes. It’s another to not learn from them.
Speaking of vision, has anyone heard what kind of vision Mayor Joe Rodgers has for Monticello.