Letter: Route 24 not a safety hazard but a sanity hazard

Posted 8/20/18

To the editor:

Mr. Bennis is correct to identify the southern terminus of Route 24 as a hazard, but I'm not convinced it is a safety issue.

What we lack are skilled and attentive drivers. In a …

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Letter: Route 24 not a safety hazard but a sanity hazard

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To the editor:

Mr. Bennis is correct to identify the southern terminus of Route 24 as a hazard, but I'm not convinced it is a safety issue.

What we lack are skilled and attentive drivers. In a modern automobile that terminus can be navigated at twice the posted speed limit in dry conditions. Sure a bit white knuckle and inappropriate given the lack of sight lines, but it can be done.

We don't need speed enforcement. We need lane enforcement. The left lane is for overtaking only, and the right lane is never to be used for passing. That combined with the courtesy not to overtake someone just so you can slam on you're brakes in front of them 100 yards later would set the world, and that terminus in particular, right.

I'm a conservation of momentum nut. I have never in my 26 years of daily navigating that terminus needed to apply my brakes except for the buffoons who overtake me, have no idea what they've gotten themselves into, and then gone from 50 to 60 mph to 35 to 40 mph in front of me.

It is quite fortunate for these idiots that I prefer to keep my drivers license and not end up stamping license plates up state or I'd regularly give them the Bristol bump and run and into the Jersey Barrier they'd go. (That was a Nascar reference for those who don't get it.)

So I say not a safety hazard, but perhaps a sanity hazard for those of us who actually know how to drive.

Scott Boyd 

20 Kensington Ave. 

Portsmouth

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