A Letter to the Editor from Rhino Times Reader Alan Marshall
The County Board of Commissioners, minus two, has decided that putting a big truck park on Sheraton Park Rd. just outside the town limits of Pleasant Garden is a good idea.
They don’t care that the increased heavy truck traffic will have severe adverse effects on the town, creating serious traffic and safety problems. One particular intersection, that being Pleasant Garden Rd and Neely Rd. has businesses and an elementary school surrounding it. The roads and the intersection are not equipped to handle large trucks without causing potential traffic accidents and almost constant property damage to the businesses and school. A tractor trailer literally could not make a right turn onto Neely Rd if there is traffic at that intersection. The same applies to trucks trying to turn left onto PG Rd. It would have to intrude into the parking lot of the business that sits there. The same applies to the intersection of PG Rd. and Sheraton Park Rd…