Muscatine

Having read these posts it seems that they all want to make the intersection the bad guy here, maybe they are right.

In fact the intersection was there before the Y and before the school etc.. I used the intersection until it got to the point that I spent too much time waiting so (and maybe this is the wrong thing to say) I either starting leaving earlier or later or found a different route, in short I started thinking ahead.

If you put up the stop signs for school use how do you stop the traffic using the intersrection on Cedar St. which is not a level intersection in the winter when the roads are bad and used by inexpereinced drivers going to school, crash waiting to happen, I think so, then who will we blame.

You know as our city grows sometimes you just have to roll with the punches or traffic for this case.

These roads were designed for the free flow of traffic in and out and around the downtown, too many stops and starts and we waste a lot more gas at whichever price it is today. 

The real answer is start thinking and planning our trips.

BTW I see a lot of vehicles going back and forth to schools with only one child in them, maybe a way to help us reduce our gas prices is don't use so much try carpooling kids from the same neighborhoods or housing additions.

Yes Nedl, it's really too bad.  I had a friend of mine (fellow bowler), by the name of Bill Gassen, who worked for the Journal until he retired, about 30 years ago.  He told me that after he retired, that they quit using "proof readers", and waalla, now we have the consequences!  Anyway, I have to agree with our fellow neighbor (the officer), even though I started this post.  IF I could get the grandkids to get their butts out of bed sooner than they do, the problem would be completely resolved.  But, since that ain't gonna happen, I guess that I just complain.  I will have to say, that after dropping off my West girl, IF I turn left on Fulliam, and then right on Houser, it IS much faster (and, the wait time on Fulliam and Houser is MUST less than Logan & Cedar)!  BUT, there are STILL a LOT of cars that take Logan to Cedar EVERY day, and, they haven't wised up yet, so, I guess that, that intersection is just going to be one of the busy ones, through the school year.  But, on a sidebar, people complained that they couldn't get on Mulberry from Parham, and they FINALLY put up a 3-way stop sign there.  Now there's no problem transversing that intersection.  Why couldn't they on Cedar & Logan?  Just more sand or salt, during the winter time.  Oh well, I give, the folks that are against my idea, YOU win!  Summer'll be here shortly.  Have a GREAT week folks..........Tom.