Wallace South experiment is accident waiting to happen

To the editor,

The new, experimental one-way block of Wallace Avenue South is an accident waiting to happen.

A growing population live on the south side of Main Street. With the traffic light gone, these folks have no safe way to access Main Street.

For excitement, park at Davidson Avenue/Main Street and have fun documenting the frustration. Friday afternoon provides a good watch.

A vehicle waiting to turn left can:

barge out and scare drivers in both directions;

sit at the stop sign with left blinker on until it registers that it is not safe, then quickly turn right, proceed one block, turn left and go around the block; and

park until someone has the courage to let the driver into the lane of traffic.

The safest alternative is to take the scenic tour up Elma Street, turn right onto Highway 23 and proceed through the roundabout.

The volume of traffic has increased on Highway 23, so impatient drivers can spin through Meulensteen’s parking lot to avoid waiting.

The Main Street light has been blackened. A shopper standing on the north side of Main Street who wants to shop at Watson’s Home Hardware can walk to the Post Office crosswalk and back to Watson’s, or use the two Wallace Avenue crosswalks. Guess what the shopper will do. Unfortunately, ‘shop local’ was not in the plan.

Limiting the number of parking spaces means no parking, no shopping!

This one-way street has exceptions. Emergency vehicles are allowed to travel the wrong way.

Fortunately, the one-way street has very little traffic so vehicles can speed along blaring… no one driving on Main Street can see the lights flashing. Hope the batteries are working in all the hearing aids.

End this experiment before an accident happens.

Eleanor Petrie

Listowel