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Letter: City of Lakewood responds…

June 14, 2009 By Ben Sclair

I admit to being a force behind the revision at Meadow Road. Living right at the intersection I became acutely aware not just of how ugly and void of greenery it was, but also just how dangerous and poorly designed the old intersection was…

Due to very high speeds from a downhill sloping free right turn onto northbound Meadow Road, my kid’s and my neighbor’s life were literally at risk every time they tried to exit the driveway.

The new road revision was approved and drafted by professionally educated traffic engineers and reviewed by citizens on the Transportation Advisory Committee.

We have since landscaped and planted trees in the area to green and beautify the neighborhood and recently added an environmentally friendly rain garden to help remove pollutants from the storm water runoff and help recharge the aquifer.

I’m quite pleased to “masterminded” the efforts that resulted in reduced speeds and improved local safety that helped to protect the kids, while at the same time helping to green and improve the neighborhood, the environment and surface water quality.

Malcolm Russell
Lakewood, WA

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  1. Acehi says

    June 15, 2009 at 9:49 am

    Proffesionaly educated traffic engineers!! (Idiots)

  2. Acehi says

    June 15, 2009 at 10:00 am

    BTW, Thre stop signs would have been a cheaper solution or you might have prefered to block that section of your street to the public.

  3. Sandy says

    June 15, 2009 at 3:54 pm

    You certainly don’t have anything to be proud of when a stop sign would have solved the problem! Also, the view of the curve is curtailed by the poor job of plantings in the blocked area. Shame.

  4. Malcolm Russell says

    June 18, 2009 at 9:33 pm

    BTW Acehi – I don’t understand what you mean. Blocking the steet would have been more expensive and there were already several stop signs there before, three or more… However, the danger was the sloping free righthand angle turn heading north on Meadow with roughly a 20% angle to it and a downhill slope – it was studied and absolutely and in no way was it ever suitable for a stop sign.

    And Sandy, as mentioned there is no stop sign soultion that could have or would have worked to have solved the problem of that danger in anyway whatsoever… The plantings are subjective in nature, everyone has an opinion, the 20 plus people from the neighborhood that helped plant them liked them that way and mostly the area is better for the landscaping than it would be without.

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