Four-way stop or deadly intersection doesn’t make sense

Opinion

July 27, 2010

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

FROM STAFF REPORTS For The Daily Southerner The Daily Southerner Tue Jul 27, 2010, 11:14 AM EDT

TARBORO — I read Kathy Chapman's Letter to the Editor on July 15 about Scott's Crossroads, at the N.C. 42/33 intersection.

I have also read the story that The Dally Southerner ran (July 21) on the DOT response.

It does not make good sense to put a four-way stop at Scott's Crossroads when people don't stop at the two-way now.

DOT wants to make it four times as bad as it is now. Mrs. Chapman suggested rumble strips, as it would get the peoples attention.

A DOT engineer said a study is being done about a four-way stop. It soutids like they have already made up their minds. Does the so-called study take into account of school days, which makes about three times as much traffic.

With school buses and people taking their kids back and forth to school did DOT take this added traffic into account?

DOT also said that there is not enough traffic for a stop light, well that's funny because not to long ago they said that there was so much traffic that they were thinking about making N.C. 33 from Princeville to Greenville a four-lane highway.

So why not put in rumble strips and a stoplight?

If there is enough traffic to consider a four-lane highway, then why isn't there enough traffic to make Scott's Crossroads a safer intersection with rumble strips and a stoplight – not making it a more hazardous intersection with a four-way stop.

Robert Braswell

Tarboro

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