Neighborhood silliness

Warning: Skip this if you hate neighborhood silliness. You may, however, find the following items amusing:

1. Someone in our neighborhood has complained on the neighborhood list-serv about a local police officer who is citing drivers for disobeying traffic laws.

2. Someone (else) in our neighborhood wants to privatize the neighborhood streets and have the neighborhood take responsibility for re-paving and maintaining the quality of the streets.

I have respect for each of these two people, but find their ideas ludicrous. Personally, I'm quite happy when police officers enforce traffic laws in order to keep our streets safe from drivers who would otherwise speed on streets with 25 mph limits and sail through stop signs. As for privatizing our streets: as if anyone in the neighborhood has the time (or competence, for that matter) to re-pave and maintain them. I think our time and efforts would be much better spent being productive and not complaining nearly as often.

In other neighborhood news: construction on the new Fourth Avenue underpass is scheduled to begin soon. The latest progress involves a new sign, as promised on the old sign. Such progress! In other street construction news, any day now, we're told, we should see conversion from one-way to two-way traffic on 6th Avenue and Stone Avenue begin sometime soon.