In reference to the 'Fruitland Road Issue', as covered in this recent editorial, in which I proposed a stop-gap solution of a reduction in the speed limit from 50 Km/h to 40...something I got just about no response to from any of the email's recipients...I have this further suggestion:
For a pre-determined amount of time -say, three months- why don't all trucks using Fruitland Road voluntarily reduce their speed to 40 Km/h as a gesture of goodwill, as a generous offering towards improving the situation for the long-suffering residents?
As stated previously, this would add approximately twenty seconds onto the average trip from Barton Street to Highway #8, an amount of time hardly pivotal in the overall 'profitability and practicalities' scheme of things, yes?
Now, given that truckers are in no way 'the bad guys' here, that they're merely executing their tasks and responsibilities to move product and keep our system working within the designs that have been in place for more than a century, one would hope that this sincere gesture of largesse would somehow have a ripple-effect and maybe, just maybe help move things along towards the inevitable solution. Wouldn't one...?
I await with bated breath how this is received by all concerned.
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