One-way, wrong way

We have driven on Winter Avenue every day for 43 years going to work and school, and shopping ... now we’re seniors, and we can’t figure out how to get to work anymore.

This latest traffic change on Winter Avenue making it oneway eastward, is really disruptive for the driving public.

Why was it done? Shouldn’t there be a corresponding westward route accompanying such a change, to compensate the drivers?

Please don’t let me hear once again that residents on the street complained of too much traffic. We who have lived in the city for many years are sick to death of hearing that whine.

Winter Avenue is a public street for the purpose of enabling the citizens to get to where they are going. (And for which we pay taxes!) It is not a private driveway.

Allow me these words — a city is a place where one will find cars. This is a fact.

With no traffic, one does not have a city, one has the country.

This city doesn’t have enough people as it is, and hence not enough cars. Please, city council, stop obliging every “bleeding heart” that grabs your ears.

We have driven on Winter Avenue every day for 43 years going to work and school, and shopping ... now we’re seniors, and we can’t figure out how to get to work anymore.

It’s where we drive to get to work to earn the money to pay the taxes that maintain the road, that we drive on to get to work to earn the money to pay the taxes … you get the drift

Please rescind this change as quickly as possible.

We are not alone in our attitude.

Sincerely,

Nora and Dominic Lippa St. John’s