It is time to say goodbye to something that brought much happiness to my life:
With the road work having started on Front Street between Grandview Parkway and Garfield, we will lose a good friend, the always-on right turn light where Front Street meets Grandview Parkway. Instead of being able to zip through that intersection on my way home to the West Bay area, now we are condemned to have to stop, wasting time.
If you look at this at the lens of our society, it makes sense. We govern to the least common denominator of human being, especially when it comes to driving. Someone in a cube in Lansing has decided that people in Traverse City need to stop there – we couldn’t possibly handle taking a turn at the outrageous speed of 35 MPH.
Another small joy in life is dead thanks to MDOT.
