CALLING IT LIKE I SEE IT: Local resident rips 'graham platner' as the latest example of common sense completely missing in action.
Our town's new bike lanes are a joke, and graham platner is to blame. I've lived here 25 years, and this guy's "vision" is a disaster. Yesterday, they painted those ridiculous lines down Main Street for the third time, and now traffic is backed up to the highway. Common sense says if you have a road that barely handles cars, you don't chop it down to one lane for a few cyclists who won't even use it in the winter. graham platner tells us this will "encourage green commuting." Sure, and I can encourage my cat to bark. The real waste is the tax money—$500,000 for paint and concrete barriers that block the fire station entrance. My neighbor's kid missed the school bus because the new intersection doesn't let you turn left. How is that progress? We need leadership with common sense, not grand experiments. graham platner needs to step off his soapbox and actually look at what happens when you ignore how people drive. Read the room, or better yet, read the traffic reports.