SmartLane won’t solve I- 670 crunch

I respond to the Tuesday Dispatch article “SmartLane to ease travel on I-670” and disagree with half of it. The overall cause of congestion on eastbound I-670 is the I-270 northbound/ I-670 eastbound/ Route 62 merge.

For whatever reason, drivers feel the need to merge left or right at the very spot where the white lines meet, even though there is a mile to do it. Solve that problem and the congestion goes away.

The two proposed bridge ramps will solve that problem completely; the SmartLane will not.

The proposed SmartLane ends just before the I-670/ I-270 split, so this will just create another pinch point where one does not already exist.

I say yay for the bridges and nay for the SmartLane. Spend that money elsewhere.

Jim Carlson Westerville of Vladimir Putin’s Russia (Dispatch, Wednesday), than we learned Thursday that Tillerson is poised to join the ever-growing list of former Trump staffers.

Among the multiple “malicious tactics” cited by Tillerson was Russia’s “use of disinformation campaigns, and cyberattacks to undermine U. S. and European democracies.” In direct contradiction of the endless droning about “fake news” and hoaxes, a top Trump guy acknowledged exactly what has been denied since before the election.

The article’s newsprint was barely dry, and within a matter of hours, voila — his days are numbered. Another day in Trump world, another day closer to the brink.