To the editor:

The current Town Council members that voted to approve the roundabout were bullied by RIDOT Director Peter Alviti.

The unknowns to our community are too many. Why didn’t Alviti send a representative to present this plan and answer questions from our town?This is a sham, a total breakdown of communication and town councilors being bullied.

Why did Chuck Levesque put this on the agenda? Did he need to be relevant? Did he reach out to the Senate president? Did the Senate president reach out to him? They were pals for many years when Councilor Levesque was a state senator.

Too many residents last week and this week spoke against it. Why is our Town Council playing “no peek” poker? A blind person can see this is a setup by Director Alviti and the four members of the Town Council.

Sure these roundabouts may work well in other areas; I do not see how this will work at this intersection. There are too many unknowns, and these four town councilors approved it without a formal presentation from RIDOT. We got it stuck up our town’s butt (Monday) night.

I expect Director Alviti may be in for a legal fight, along with this Town Council for approving this plan without their presentation. Besides, it was known last evening that the RIDOT director knew about the critical issues on the Washington Bridge back in 2020. Hope you don’t need to cross the Washington Bridge for the next four months!

The contaminated soil and the lies at the (Route) 6/10 connector are also part of this ex-union suit, now RIDOT director. Think about what he said last week about no roundabout, no work for Portsmouth’s badly needed East Main Road paving work.

Town councilors Abbot, Levesque, Ryan and Katzman will have a monument naming them as the Roundabout Four that ignored all the Portsmouth residents. This is not the place or the time for a roundabout in Portsmouth!

John Vitkevich

119 Hummock Ave.

Portsmouth