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Originally posted by elijah495:
Everytime Killen gets $5000 in speeding tickets they put in a new red light [intersection] or whatever.. I've got two named after me up there now....For 2007, I wish for Killen two more red lights and I know where you can put them...
Get your facts straight before you go to griping. Killen doesn't own any of the traffic lights on US Hwy 72...and did not have any input in the placement of the ones that are there. Alabama Department of Transportation was the ones who put the traffic lights on US Hwy 72 in Killen...all of them....even the one at the 72/Lock Six Road intersection. BTW, if you've got two of them named after you, YOU have a problem. You're just an accident looking for a place to happen. 40,000 people a day travel through those red lights....about two or three a week get ticketed for running the red lights. So, statistically, your running them must be really obvious, or you're just not able to recognize a marked patrol car and stop like 39,999 other people did that day.
The Dept. of Transportation's initial plan was to have an overpass at the US Hwy 72/US Hwy 43 intersection, which would have kept us from having a traffic light there. Evidently that was too costly, so we got a poorly designed intersection, a pretty set of stripes on the road, and another light to contend with.
And in response to your next post....yes, many people who travel through the US Hwy 72/Harris Drive intersection said, "what are they thinking"? Of course, the same could be said of whomever developed the subdivision 50 years ago....what were they thinking bringing what turned out to be a main feeder road into a major highway below the crest of a hill?