Why need for speed? Reduce A1A to 25 mph Read more online
Regarding Tuesday’s front page article about the Florida Department of Transportation’s plan to reduce speed limits — it’s a great idea. Fort Lauderdale has built and rebuilt a beautiful walking path along its beach. Have you ever walked it? You might as well stroll alongside the turnpike!
A1A is essentially a residential roadway with small shops and restaurants. Uniformly reducing the speed limit to 25 mph will not only make it safer, but also more enjoyable. If you have to get somewhere quickly, take Federal Highway or Interstate 95. SunSentinel.com/ opinion/letters
and the coroners’ offices to work together to streamline their clean-up procedures.
Every time there’s a Tri-Rail strike it takes hours to get the train moving again. Meanwhile, people miss flights, are late to work where employers aren’t so forgiving, and have to make emergency arrangements for their children to be picked up from day/after care when some have no one, and the police are called.
Yes, it’s sad for the fatalities, however, no other rail system takes this long to clean up. Get police, medics, and coroners’ offices out there ASAP, quickly take pictures, move the debris, and let the train get on its way. Then have the trains continuously moving to the north and south areas of the accident quickly instead of all trains sitting at a dead stop for hours, too. perpetrators at the risk and being fired.
The public thinks whistle-blowers should be honored. However, a government employee doing the same thing is called a leaker and is threatened with being fired. Many people think firing the leaker is the right thing to do. This is a double standard. As long as the reported information is not classified secret (that could drastically affect national security) but instead could prevent government wrongdoing, leaking should be considered good. If governments or corporations are lying or cheating, the public has a right to know, and those who leak or blow the whistle are to be commended. of retaliation