I applaud the Aug. 17 letter by Duane Huntley, “Roundabouts unaffordable option,” regarding the 137th Avenue changes. With narrow lanes, four roundabouts and numerous street jogs, it resembles a go-cart track more than city street. Then they raised the center of the roundabouts and planted trees. The one on 49th street is a 15-foot-tall weed patch totally obscuring oncoming traffic; I guess that is why I see auto glass shards in the street every time I ride my bike there.
Next, the sidewalks, with tree wells with no trees planted yet and all the utility and sign poles, make it impossible to walk side by side in many areas. No doubt trees will be planted there, like in the 49th Street roundabout, which won’t be maintained and hang over the street to scratch the sides of my motor home.
I suppose whoever approved this fiasco also approved the trees on 162nd Avenue with three-inch thorns that overhang the sidewalk and are not trimmed.
The city says that they spent so much money on this debacle that they cannot afford to fix the portion of 137th Avenue that meets Fourth Plain, an extremely dangerous street.
