Friday, September 07, 2007
The Glassford Question….
Recently Glassford Hill Road in Prescott Valley was under construction. The normal speed in the construction area before the construction was 35mph. During the construction with all the road being ripped up and the detours and the absence of lines, and the safety junk all over the place, the speed was still 35mph.
There seems to be something wrong here. To me the speed should have been lowered to about 25mph or so. There was not even the dire warning signs about double fines present. Apparently the powers that be thought that 35mph was a safe speed even with all the road hazards present during construction.
This leads me to an even more interesting question or two. Does this mean that is 35mph is a safe speeed there with the hazards? If that is true then why is the normal speed is only 35mph? Should the normal speed be higher like around 45mph? That road feels perfectly safe at 45mph as it is a big double lane highway with turnoffs as needed. If Glassford Hill Road is fully capable of 45mph speeds then why is the speed limit there only 35mph? Is the town of Prescott Valley doing that just to make money off the people in town for artificial speeding tickets? To me that seems to be the answer. Prescott Valley Government has always seemed to be rather greedy in their need to fleece the people who live there. Maybe there needs to be some legal action here like what is happening with regard to the radar intersections that they have put there.
Tell me what you think! Leave a comment below!