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I just faxed this letter over to the Calvert Recorder....
Dear Editor:
There was an accident last month at Route 2/4 and Sixes Road. Traffic was tied up for hours. One lane of the Thomas Johnson Bridge was closed last weekend so a snooper vehicle could check out the condition of the bridge. Traffic was tied up for hours. There have been meetings on both ends of the county about traffic problems. Millions of dollars have been spent this year to address the immediate traffic flow problems of Calvert County. Still we sit in traffic.
Gas is $3.00 a gallon. We calculate how much it costs us to get to and from work by calculating the miles per gallon rating of our vehicle and the mileage to and from our jobs. Does it cost us less to turn our vehicles off and start them again in traffic congestion? What is the calculation for sitting in traffic?
It’s time we stopped thinking in terms of one or two highways. Try new highways. Learn alternate routes. Making a detour may be out of the way one day and save you 45 minutes the next. We need to be prepared. What route would we choose in the event of a planned evacuation? Calvert County is a peninsula not an island.
There’s another highway available to a large number of the working people in Calvert County that is really under utilized. People use it for pleasure now. I know a number of people who use it for commerce. Some of our youth are taking advantage of the educational benefits. It’s called highway WWW or the Internet. We started building highway WWW in the late 70’s in Calvert County. In the 80’s Vice President Al Gore re-invented the way the government does business based on highway WWW. Banks interact with businesses wirelessly via highway WWW. Business interacts with other business and even customers via highway WWW.
How many of us drive to work to sit in front of a computer for the majority of the day? Why do we do this? The workplace is still on a “by the hour” schedule and that is, in my opinion, as archaic as the “by the gallon” choice of highway. We are chained to a time clock and a gas tank. If we are going to move on highway WWW we should be calculating our day on a production or transaction. We are so slow to change. Why do we do this?
Look around at work. How many people do you see that drove on a congested highway to sit in front of a computer for the day? How much of that traffic congestion would we be able to re-route to highway WWW? Should we be spending all of our infrastructure funds on pavement highways? Shouldn’t we be spending some of it on getting highway WWW up to speed?
It’s just a thought. If you ask me, there are a lot of people who could work from home. Local Governments should be leading the way. It’s just a thought but if people could work in Calvert County, they would be more likely to shop in Calvert County.
One more thought, you’re less likely to be killed doing 70 MPH on highway WWW.
It’s just a thought I had while sitting in traffic this morning.
Thank you for your time and your forum,
Becky Tice
Dear Editor:
There was an accident last month at Route 2/4 and Sixes Road. Traffic was tied up for hours. One lane of the Thomas Johnson Bridge was closed last weekend so a snooper vehicle could check out the condition of the bridge. Traffic was tied up for hours. There have been meetings on both ends of the county about traffic problems. Millions of dollars have been spent this year to address the immediate traffic flow problems of Calvert County. Still we sit in traffic.
Gas is $3.00 a gallon. We calculate how much it costs us to get to and from work by calculating the miles per gallon rating of our vehicle and the mileage to and from our jobs. Does it cost us less to turn our vehicles off and start them again in traffic congestion? What is the calculation for sitting in traffic?
It’s time we stopped thinking in terms of one or two highways. Try new highways. Learn alternate routes. Making a detour may be out of the way one day and save you 45 minutes the next. We need to be prepared. What route would we choose in the event of a planned evacuation? Calvert County is a peninsula not an island.
There’s another highway available to a large number of the working people in Calvert County that is really under utilized. People use it for pleasure now. I know a number of people who use it for commerce. Some of our youth are taking advantage of the educational benefits. It’s called highway WWW or the Internet. We started building highway WWW in the late 70’s in Calvert County. In the 80’s Vice President Al Gore re-invented the way the government does business based on highway WWW. Banks interact with businesses wirelessly via highway WWW. Business interacts with other business and even customers via highway WWW.
How many of us drive to work to sit in front of a computer for the majority of the day? Why do we do this? The workplace is still on a “by the hour” schedule and that is, in my opinion, as archaic as the “by the gallon” choice of highway. We are chained to a time clock and a gas tank. If we are going to move on highway WWW we should be calculating our day on a production or transaction. We are so slow to change. Why do we do this?
Look around at work. How many people do you see that drove on a congested highway to sit in front of a computer for the day? How much of that traffic congestion would we be able to re-route to highway WWW? Should we be spending all of our infrastructure funds on pavement highways? Shouldn’t we be spending some of it on getting highway WWW up to speed?
It’s just a thought. If you ask me, there are a lot of people who could work from home. Local Governments should be leading the way. It’s just a thought but if people could work in Calvert County, they would be more likely to shop in Calvert County.
One more thought, you’re less likely to be killed doing 70 MPH on highway WWW.
It’s just a thought I had while sitting in traffic this morning.
Thank you for your time and your forum,
Becky Tice
