Please allow me this letter as my opportunity to address the vast community of The Villages-News readers who might be concerned about the future of our hometown, my hometown of 16 years.
Over the last several weeks, there have been frequent articles, comments to those articles, and Letters to the Editor debating what I call the roadway albatross, also known as the upper north Morse Boulevard. There was an article in the V-N.com issue hitting my email box this Thursday morning, June 11, noting “Safety improvements to Morse Boulevard come to a screeching halt,” and that is a very positive note in my opinion.
Within one of the earlier V-N articles, James Vaccaro states that “building the multi-modal paths off the road is the solution we all need to strive for.” But Mr. Vaccaro’s suggestion does not provide a permanent solution for the long-range future. The needed safe and operational use of the subject portion of Morse for mingled automobiles, large and small trucks, golf carts, bicycle riders, and pedestrians can never be accomplished by further “improvements.”…