On behalf of hospital employees and visitors, I would like to ask why traffic lights were put in at 52nd Avenue and 43rd Street in Red Deer?
Traffic used to run smoothly, with everyone taking their turns when each came up to the intersection.
Now, there are four or five vehicles lined up at red lights with no one at the other three roadways.
One first driver was going straight and stopped at a red light with three vehicles behind him that were turning — and then there was me. We all had to stop and wait for the light to turn green. There were no other cars at the other three roadways.
So I ask these questions:
• Who authorized these traffic lights?
• Did the person who authorized these traffic lights realize that there were traffic lights only one block to the west and one block to the east?
l Who paid for these traffic lights?
• What was the cost of installing and running these traffic lights?
Traffic is now backed up in each of the directions at different times of the day, where it used to flow smoothly. Could the city please reply to this letter to the editor in an article or editorial so that all of the people in Red Deer know the answers to the above questions.
Sandra Ladwig
Hospital staff member
Red Deer