I’m certain to get backlash from fuddy-duddies, mostly my age (70) about this. So be it.
For as long as I have lived on this side of the river, there has been a little-known stretch of perfect blacktop, dead end, nice and straight, with no driveways, and no traffic on the west end of Vancouver Lake. There is nothing around it, no one to bother. For all these years, local teenagers, gear heads, hot-rodders and other car nuts have gathered there to talk cars and yes, perhaps race. While there is no really 100 percent safe place to race, this place was a close as it gets.
Thursday I drove there in my Corvette to find speed bumps every 300 yards. Good grief! We couldn’t get speed bumps on Bernie Drive where we really need them, but public money was used to put speed bumps on this harmless, mostly unused stretch of road? Why? Who was being bothered? You have just forced us to race elsewhere, probably onto busy streets. There will be accidents that didn’t need to happen.
As long as there are teenagers and a few other lead-foot drivers, nothing will stop some folks from racing. It was true when I was 16, and it’s true now I’ve turned 70.
