In the March 20 editorial “Roads Don’t Stay Evergreen,” I think that the statement, “The highway, which runs from Chelsea Avenue to the city limits at 192nd Avenue and bisects the area between Highway 14 and the Columbia River, is one of the region’s oldest and most scenic roadways” is in error. The highway actually starts at 6315 Southeast Evergreen Highway (.3 mile west of Chelsea Avenue) and stretches to 21119 Southeast Evergreen Highway where it becomes Southwest Sixth Avenue in Camas. The highway from Chelsea Avenue to 192nd Avenue is the portion covered by the Evergreen Highway Corridor Management Plan.
Also, resident Stephen Line is quoted as saying, “I have never heard a resident express that they want to keep the road as it is — unsafe and difficult to drive.” Line and I have never met, for he would have heard me (a longtime resident of the corridor) express my desire to keep the road the way it is in order to control the rampant speeding along the road. It is not “unsafe and difficult to drive” if one obeys the speed limit which, in my opinion, should be 25 mph for the entire length of the road.
