I guess I have to take a portion of responsibility for that young girls' death at Cowart Road.
I did not protest loudly as I saw the development of commerce and the increase of traffic in the last 40 years.
Forty years ago, we had the opportunity to plan to make that area safer. Now we are vowing to put on more bandages after another senseless death.
It was very obvious 40 years ago, as it is today, that traffic coming down that hill would have trouble stopping at that intersection.
Forty years ago we could have easily put an underpass under the highway for the traffic on Cowart Road. It would have been cheap to buy some of the land at the Starlight Drive-In to make access roads. It would have been much safer for loaded trucks coming down the hill to continue at all times without cross traffic.
Instead the "brains" at the time moved the intersection, (you could wonder where their brains were) a little further away from the bottom of the hill.
This did not decrease the danger of a loaded truck not being able to stop. Installing more lights blinking, flashing, yelling, yada yada, will not make a difference to a runaway truck up to 80,000 pounds careening down the hill, crashing through multiple cars and killing many people. It amazes me that people still think that a red light will stop a truck.
It is really only a matter of time until this scenario will play out.
We are all responsible for that young girls' death. We put a price on her life of a few dollars.
Do you feel good now about saving a few bucks and ignoring a huge problem?
I don't.
Robert Clayton
Prince George
