A Most Sincere Thank You
Wednesday, June 11 2008
I would like to take this opportunity to again say thank you to all of the people that supported the effort to have a traffic device placed at the intersection of 104 and Limekiln Road, in Butler.
I wish my report to you could be of a more positive nature, but I received word this week that our proposal and concerns were rejected by the New York State Department of Transportation.
After the state’s study, it was decided that the only changes to what many of you, as well as I, feel is a dangerous intersection, is going to be new ‘Stop Ahead’ signs on the approaches from the north and south on Limekiln and will be installed by the state’s maintenance crews “as soon as their schedule allows.”
The study further indicated that there are “less than two accidents per year at the intersection,” and this is not unusual for similar intersections in the state.
At this point, all we as parents can do is to further profess to our young drivers, the need to be extra careful at this and all such intersections, and hope that they are not involved in the “less than two accidents” that occur there annually.
Again, I want to thank all of you who called, emailed or personally spoke to me, and voiced their concerns about the intersection. We fought a good fight, for a good cause and the future will show how badly we may have lost that fight.
—Bill Wiggins, Wolcott
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