Letters to the Editor 01-17-2006
July 28, 2016 at 4:25 p.m.
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- Accidents - Kinky Roads - Theft
Accidents
Editor, Times-Union:I would like to thank you for printing my story. I was hoping for some input from the public and I had some success which was comforting and insightful.
We need to teach our children how to deal with situations like the one my son was in. Accidents happen everyday and statistics show about 30 percent or so are hit-and- run.
Deadlyroads.com will show you how many people have suffered from hit-and-run tragedies. Tom's accident is listed on the site through the article printed in this paper, with a caption about passengers leaving the scene.
Sounds pretty close to a hit-and-run incident, but not by our state laws. There needs to be changes or modifying done to these laws to prevent this from happening again.
I am bound to do something about it. The age of obtaining a license, I believe, is too young for the kids of today and believe it should be increased to the age of 18.
I know this would raise a lot of eyebrows but the death rate due to auto accidents is increasing among the first-time drivers between the ages of 15-18.
I have been trying to contact our legislature about doing some changes to the laws but parents and schools need to teach the children about getting aid for the injured or the helpless. World peace would be nice, too, but the little things that make a difference could lead to a better world.
Thomas Hoopingarner
New Paris, via e-mail
Kinky Roads
Editor, Times-Union:I have been reading with interest lately about the Ind. 15 projects, especially the Jan. 10 front-page article in the Times-Union. Here is my suggestion.
Straighten the kinks in the "newly widened" highway and that would be a big improvement in its self. If the planners (Jeremy Skinner - I only use his name because he was mentioned in the article) would travel this road as much as I do, he would think some drunk designed and built the road.
Why didn't they bring the southbound lane from the traffic light at CR 350N and straighten it up to Kohl's? (Remove the kink). And when you leave Kohl's (CR 300N) heading south, why wasn't the lane just straightened to Petro's? (Remove the kink). Go out there, planners, and look at it, it is ridiculous.
Another thing, at the Ind. 15 and CR 350N intersection, they built it up so high that you can't see the traffic across the highway looking west. At the CR 350N intersection, they should have made three lanes. A left turn lane, (which they did), a straight-through lane and a right turn lane so that the light would not be tripped if you just wanted to turn right from 350N.
The article also mentioned about more stoplights being installed in the near future. People, we do not need more traffic lights. We do not need a light at every drive way from here to Leesburg. Straighten up the crooked road; realign the intersections, quit putting up new buildings in holes that you can't drive out of in the wintertime.
It isn't easy to sit on an icy incline trying to get across an intersection like at Wal-Mart and the CR 350N and Ind. 15 intersections. If you decide to really take a look at the goofy road situation and then decide to straighten it out with a wider, kinkless road, please don't let Phend & Brown do it this time.
I have been in every state in the USA and through many road constructions, but have never seen traffic control so screwed up, as it was this past summer. Planners, if you can't figure it out, give me a call and I will be happy to work with you.
R.D. Krebs
Warsaw, via e-mail
P.S.: I don't need any hate mail to this letter like Tom Morehouse has gotten undeservingly for his letters on other subjects. I do agree with Tom about the time issue and also agree with Jeff Harding about Wolkins.
Theft
Editor, Times-Union:Thanks to your carelessness and insensitivity, many items were taken from our property on East Main Street. Because I lost my job a few years ago, we were unable to make the needed repairs on our home. We asked to have the structure torn down. As if that was a great news item, it made the front page of the Times-Union. Of course, it had to say there was no one living there and that the front door was warped so it couldn't be locked.
A couple of days after we made the front page, I was inside the house packing some boxes, etc. It was about 11:30 a.m. when I went for lunch. I came back around 1 p.m. to find many items gone and more ready at the door to be taken "with the next load." A nice sunshiny day, in broad daylight. Furniture, antiques, priceless items ...to me they were priceless because they had been in my family for many years.
I hope next time you decide to put a "hot news item" on the front page you are more careful what you write and take into consideration the information you are giving out and the feelings and emotions of others.
Shirley Rife
Warsaw, via e-mail
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- Accidents - Kinky Roads - Theft
Accidents
Editor, Times-Union:I would like to thank you for printing my story. I was hoping for some input from the public and I had some success which was comforting and insightful.
We need to teach our children how to deal with situations like the one my son was in. Accidents happen everyday and statistics show about 30 percent or so are hit-and- run.
Deadlyroads.com will show you how many people have suffered from hit-and-run tragedies. Tom's accident is listed on the site through the article printed in this paper, with a caption about passengers leaving the scene.
Sounds pretty close to a hit-and-run incident, but not by our state laws. There needs to be changes or modifying done to these laws to prevent this from happening again.
I am bound to do something about it. The age of obtaining a license, I believe, is too young for the kids of today and believe it should be increased to the age of 18.
I know this would raise a lot of eyebrows but the death rate due to auto accidents is increasing among the first-time drivers between the ages of 15-18.
I have been trying to contact our legislature about doing some changes to the laws but parents and schools need to teach the children about getting aid for the injured or the helpless. World peace would be nice, too, but the little things that make a difference could lead to a better world.
Thomas Hoopingarner
New Paris, via e-mail
Kinky Roads
Editor, Times-Union:I have been reading with interest lately about the Ind. 15 projects, especially the Jan. 10 front-page article in the Times-Union. Here is my suggestion.
Straighten the kinks in the "newly widened" highway and that would be a big improvement in its self. If the planners (Jeremy Skinner - I only use his name because he was mentioned in the article) would travel this road as much as I do, he would think some drunk designed and built the road.
Why didn't they bring the southbound lane from the traffic light at CR 350N and straighten it up to Kohl's? (Remove the kink). And when you leave Kohl's (CR 300N) heading south, why wasn't the lane just straightened to Petro's? (Remove the kink). Go out there, planners, and look at it, it is ridiculous.
Another thing, at the Ind. 15 and CR 350N intersection, they built it up so high that you can't see the traffic across the highway looking west. At the CR 350N intersection, they should have made three lanes. A left turn lane, (which they did), a straight-through lane and a right turn lane so that the light would not be tripped if you just wanted to turn right from 350N.
The article also mentioned about more stoplights being installed in the near future. People, we do not need more traffic lights. We do not need a light at every drive way from here to Leesburg. Straighten up the crooked road; realign the intersections, quit putting up new buildings in holes that you can't drive out of in the wintertime.
It isn't easy to sit on an icy incline trying to get across an intersection like at Wal-Mart and the CR 350N and Ind. 15 intersections. If you decide to really take a look at the goofy road situation and then decide to straighten it out with a wider, kinkless road, please don't let Phend & Brown do it this time.
I have been in every state in the USA and through many road constructions, but have never seen traffic control so screwed up, as it was this past summer. Planners, if you can't figure it out, give me a call and I will be happy to work with you.
R.D. Krebs
Warsaw, via e-mail
P.S.: I don't need any hate mail to this letter like Tom Morehouse has gotten undeservingly for his letters on other subjects. I do agree with Tom about the time issue and also agree with Jeff Harding about Wolkins.
Theft
Editor, Times-Union:Thanks to your carelessness and insensitivity, many items were taken from our property on East Main Street. Because I lost my job a few years ago, we were unable to make the needed repairs on our home. We asked to have the structure torn down. As if that was a great news item, it made the front page of the Times-Union. Of course, it had to say there was no one living there and that the front door was warped so it couldn't be locked.
A couple of days after we made the front page, I was inside the house packing some boxes, etc. It was about 11:30 a.m. when I went for lunch. I came back around 1 p.m. to find many items gone and more ready at the door to be taken "with the next load." A nice sunshiny day, in broad daylight. Furniture, antiques, priceless items ...to me they were priceless because they had been in my family for many years.
I hope next time you decide to put a "hot news item" on the front page you are more careful what you write and take into consideration the information you are giving out and the feelings and emotions of others.
Shirley Rife
Warsaw, via e-mail
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