Someone on the Killingtonzone board wrote:
"The lane coming from the
traffic light has a Yield sign already and since the police have no
record of a traffic accident in that area I see no reason to change it.
Guess they don't count cars sliding off the road or turning into the
ditch as an accident."
Response:
"Most of the ditchwork done by errant
motorists is due to snowy or icy conditions. Yes they going too fast,
but too fast for the CONDITIONS. You can be going five miles an hour or
less and there are times when there is no traction at all. I live on
that road and am out in all sorts of nasty conditions plowing. I am
aware of the lack of traction, have studded snows on a dually 1 ton, and
slow to a crawl when approaching my driveway yet I can't tell how many
times I've slid at least 50 feet past it. There also have been times
that the only thing that saved me was dropping the plow and being
stopped by a snowbank before I ended up in a ditch.
Add alcohol to
the conditions and you get people in ditches. I know its alcohol because
oftentimes no police are involved when the vehicles get pulled out of
the ditches. I've actually pulled some out myself.
One other item of
note regarding ditch dwelling. The curve at the top of West Hill Road is
actually banked the wrong way which contributes to loss of traction as
centrifugal force pulls cars into the fall line.
I have brought this
up before without acknowledgement. You would think they would address
this issue now that they're rebuilding the road but their priorities are
skewed towards backdoor spending for economic development."
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