Dear Editor:
On May 19, the holiday Monday a couple weeks ago, in walking the perimeter of our property, we saw through the trees that the stop sign was down.
It was in our ditch accompanied by a neighbour’s mailbox. At 11am I phoned the after-hours road emergency at the county. The person acknowledged my report.
We had to take one of our cars to Kitchener so we left. At 3pm or so when we returned home the stop sign was still down. I phoned again in utter disbelief and someone comes and sets the sign back in its hole. When the roads department opened on Tuesday, I phoned them. I told them the three reported stop signs have been anchored in concrete.
That’s not the case at the 6th Line and the townline. It’s loose. I walked down on June 2 and checked. If the person who pulled it out and threw it in the ditch, returns it will be an easy pull. Eventually it will fall over on its own.
I showed the town worker (we did introduce ourselves) a bunch of branches further up in the ditch. I’ve been seeking an answer way before the stop sign incident as to why branches were cut and left there. Are they a fire hazard – sparks from gravelled road whatever. I sent pics. Repeated communication from my end fell on deaf ears.
Does anyone else have these sorts of communication issues? On Tuesday I sat down for a coffee on our deck and counted 15 cars and pickups and two school buses motoring from different directions through that intersection.
I don’t want to hear the crash or scramble in response.
David Courtney,
Belwood