Soundoff explosion!

There is a huge soundoff section today (after having none yesterday).  Some idiot thinks that roundabouts are some sort of covert liberal plot to….um…I am not sure…maybe control traffic? The person said  “I’m calling regarding the city of Muskego to put three to four roundabouts on Janesville Road, three to four within a three-block area. That’s crazy! Another liberal idea from our wonderful city hall father.”  Last time I checked “installing roundabouts” was not on the democratic platform. As a matter of fact I don’t that support of roundabouts is a liberal vs conservative issue its more of a safety issue.  According to the Wisconsin DOT roundabouts provide safe and efficient traffic flow and make use of extensive safety and traffic research conducted over the past 25 years in other countries.

Roundabouts move traffic safely through an intersection because of:

• Slower speeds
• Fewer conflict points
• Easier decision-making

Studies by the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety show that roundabouts provide a:

• 90% reduction in fatal crashes
• 76% reduction in injury crashes
• 30-40% reduction in pedestrian crashes
• 10% reduction in bicycle crashes

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Also in the soundoff people are still talking about the leaf pickup.  YOUR LEAVES ARE NOT GOING TO GET PICKED UP! When the spring thaw comes, mix your leaves with your brush pickup and they will take them.  Nothing is going to happen until then so just drop it.

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Some other guy who is still living in the 1940s-50’s  says “I was reading in the paper how some of the blacks think it’s disrespectful for some of the people down south to fly the Confederate flag.  Disrespect is when you buy cars and things from Germany, Italy, Japan and North Korea after losing hundreds of thousands of GI lives fighting against those countries to keep us – all of us – free.”  Wake up!”

Germany, Italy and Japan are strong US allies and I see nothing wrong with buying cars or other products from them, especially considering that the notion of an American car is a complete joke.  Parts come from all over the globe and a lot of “foreign” cars contain more  American-made than so-called “American” cars.  And while American car reliability is getting better, I still don’t think I would buy one.   I have a Honda with 140,000 miles on it and I have not had any problems with it.  My two previous American cars were unreliable and always had something or another wrong with them.  People who are still mad about a war that ended a half a decade ago need to get a grip on reality.  Oh, and the confederate flag is offensive to many people, myself included.