Speak-Out: Residents still riled up about potential new Dunkin’

Posted 8/26/16

I am sick and tired of hearing about how terrible a new Dunkin’ Donuts building might be, especially from people that have no idea what they are talking about. They are some of the nicest and …

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Speak-Out: Residents still riled up about potential new Dunkin’

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I am sick and tired of hearing about how terrible a new Dunkin’ Donuts building might be, especially from people that have no idea what they are talking about. They are some of the nicest and well-kept buildings in our area, and if the new Dunkin’ meets the town requirements, then it should be allowed. If it is going to look anything like the drawing that was in a past Phoneix newspaper, it WILL BE A GREAT IMPROVEMENT. A drive-up window would also help those elderly and less fortunate that can’t keep getting in and out of their cars. Traffic on Hope Street isn’t going to change one bit since Dunkin’ Donuts will be moving out of where they are now and a few feet away to a new, smaller buildding within the Goosing Ave. shopping center.

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Really, four Dunkin’ Donuts IN A THREE-MILE RADIUS in our quaint little New England town. They changed the exit there already to one-way because of traffic. There’s a bus stop there already. There’s a road divider there for the traffic. And is it really town property. Where have all the politicians gone? What is the Phoenix’s opinion? The poor firemen who race to a fire - where are they gonna park? You got be kidding me. This is a joke.

Does the fire station on Hope Street REALLY NEED MORE PARKING? Why do they have to park in the Dunkin’ Donuts shopping center when they have parking spaces of their own and a big back yard that they could use? Is Aiden’s Pub required to provide parking for the fire station on Thames Street? How much is the town paying for those spaces in the shopping center anyway, and how many more do they need for the one truck kept there. The spaces that they have now are almost always empty. Is some new Dunkin’ Donuts building really the problem or is it wasteful spending? To think that some people wonder why our tax bills keep going up!

I have lived on Fales Road for over 28 years and HAVE NEVER HAD ANY MORE TROUBLE TURNING onto Hope Street than I do on most other streets off of Hope Street. I turn into and out of Fales Road at least two times and sometimes four times every day and have hardly ever had to wait behind more than one car. The Hope Street entrance to Dunkin’ Donuts is one way. The cars that will be using the drive-thru will be turning off of Hope Street, not onto it. I love Dunkin’ Donuts coffee and have a disability, which requires my using a drive up as much as possible, and am afraid to drive on Metacom Avenue. Just because one angry old man in our neighborhood, who’s son is running for town office, is trying to get everyone all riled up with false information and doesn’t like Dunkin’ Donuts building a new, nicer building with a drive up window, the rest of us should be deprived? Don’t be so selfish, Mr. Sip ’N Dip fan, you belong on Sousa Street!

When we residents of Bristol WERE SOLD ON SPENDING MILLIONS of our tax dollars on a new, state-of-the-art, centrally-located fire complex on Metacom Avenue, we were told that it would be less expensive and more efficient to have all of our fire apparatus and offices in one central location. We were also told that tens of thousands would be saved every year by selling or renting the old, unneeded stations. We need to reconsider how much is being spent every year for maintenance, repairs, electric, water, heat, parking, etc. by keeping the old stations that we were told wren’t needed open. 

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