THE SANTA FENEW MEXICANMonday, September 25, 2000 | |
Don Canuto neighborhood needs traffic trim | |
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READERS SPEAK OUT Since December 1999, when the Cerrillos Road/Whole Foods re-routing plan began, this street's traffic and intensity has magnified ten fold, and no visible action has taken place to change or modify the traffic pollution Don Diego Avenue is now rivaling the larger city arteries except without speed bumps, few traffic lights or police ticketing. We just live on an unmonitored "freeway"; we are no longer a "residential" street. |
To turn into one's driveway on this street, one risks being the
victim of a road rage event and, at the very least, receives rude
gestures and honking - just to come home. And backing out of the
driveway is like going in reverse onto a major freeway from the
merge lane.
And now again, people who do not live in this neighborhood want to make plans for our neighborhood plans that do not affect their lives and their homes. In other small historic cities, there are vehicle-tonnage limits placed on residential and "old town" areas to protect people and buildings and to maintain old neighborhoods. Don Canuto neighborhood wants to be protected and supported, Why can't you hear us? The Lofts (at Marquez Place) is a great concept - just not there. A. Firth |