Posted on Wed, Sep 26, 2007

Atwater Road needs to be widened for safety

What a shame Ms. Wolfel couldn't fit her pick-up past the garbage truck on Atwater Road – so it is unsafe for a school bus! Could not the garbage trucks and school buses schedules be arranged so there was no conflict?How about the rest of us who used to walk, cycle and still drive on Atwater? There are still a few children who walk down the hill – they are in danger. It is currently unsafe for all residents.

Now that the township has permitted overdevelopment of the road, they are unwilling to do anything about the condition they have created.

The 200 feet of repaving that was promised in June's supervisors' meeting shrank to about 60 feet. The idea of Ms. D'Elia's that widening on the uphill curve of the road would destroy its "rural" character is absurd. She and her associates have already done far more damage over the last three years clear cutting of hundreds of trees, the construction of a large number of oversized speculative houses and the resultant over-population. If she took a poll, she might well find that few of us would object to having some of the right-of-ways in the narrow portions of the street used to widen the road; we would then have a place to walk and school buses could traverse the hill.

As for buses melding into the traffic at the foot of the hill, this is ridiculous. If vehicles on Webb are going at or below the speed limit and a car/bus stops at the foot of Atwater, as is required, there is no problem. All Atwater residents face this issue every day.

Lana Sheer

Chadds Ford