PUT A LIGHT AT THIS DANGEROUS INTERSECTION

This is about a dangerous intersection at Hamilton Bridge Road and Glover Lane. I drive it to Tom Thumb, the store. There are many vehicles that cross there: emergency vehicles, buses, people going to the doctor and the hospital.

It's one place that people sometimes don't know how to count to four.

Several months ago, I was there stopped and let two vehicles pass and, as I pulled out into the road, this one pulled right on and I couldn't help but hit him. It was his fault.

I just wanted (people) to know that this intersection needs a traffic light so that people that can't count to four can notice the difference between red and green before somebody gets killed.

(Also:)

… About bicycle riders on Munson Highway: That is not a street; it's a highway, and people travel 55 miles an hour and you come up on them in just a minute.

They need to learn to get off the road before somebody gets killed.

They need a bicycle lane on each side of the road so they'll have somewhere safe to ride.

Mary King

PEOPLE ALREADY VOTED ON COURTHOUSE

I'm reading the Press Gazette today about the property donation south of the courthouse for Pace. I don't know if the county commissioners remember or not, but the downtown place was already voted on and was to be the location, but everybody is so stubborn.

They keep on trying to sway the people and going behind people's back, but if people would realize that downtown Milton has (been) and was the approved place voted by the citizens of Santa Rosa County … and if they don't put it downtown, then the citizens ought to contact an attorney.

Somebody needs to get it started, maybe even me, to sue our county for not doing what the citizens wanted.

Roger Herd

RESOLVE COURTHOUSE ISSUE NOW

I've been watching this fiasco for 20 years and I'm tired of the commission continuing to string me along. Enough is enough.

We put these people on the board to make decisions on our behalf. They need to stop being afraid of the voters and make a decision and get this done now.

If they continue to sidestep this issue, we need to replace them with people who aren't afraid to make the difficult decisions.

Bill Hayden

PERHAPS A SMALL TAX?

I've been looking in Saturday's paper and one of the articles says now they’ve decided not to put a courthouse in the city. Before, they said the only way they would build it is to have a sales tax. Now they don't have a sales tax.

I don't know what the difference is.

If they don't want to use a regular sales tax, since all the restaurants in Santa Rosa County are going to have more customers than they know what to do with because they legalize Sunday alcohol, maybe they can charge a small tax on all the people dining and drinking on Sunday.

That ought to raise a lot of money.

Bobby Andrews

This article originally appeared on Santa Rosa Press Gazette: SPEAK OUT: Dangerous roads; county courthouse funding