Letter to the editor: Safety concerns exist – in a roundabout way

The other day I was driving in the Farmington area on Highway 3 and noticed a state trooper working the roundabout — speed limit 15 — pretty heavily on my several times back and forth thru the area; each time, he'd stopped another driver, presumably for violating the speed limit, or refusing to yield.

Woodbury, take a lesson.

Now that people have had a few years to figure out the Bailey Road/Radio Drive roundabout, maybe it's time to crack down on the people who consider it a "passing zone." With increasing frequency, I'm seeing police in the roundabout, because there's been another accident. More frequently, I see people speed up to zip through the roundabout like a Grand Prix race course because in Woodbury, one can never be second in a line if one can be first.

Exiting the rotary, there's still time to cut a car off before the two lanes merge to one.

One can fairly feel the testosterone in full boil at the roundabout.

I grew up in the land of "rotaries," so the roundabout concept isn't new to me. Still, it is with increasing alarm and fear that I use Bailey Road anymore because there are some real fools that need to be stopped before they kill someone else. How about the city consider doing just that?

Bob Collins - Woodbury

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