HomeMy WebLinkAbout03-23-22 Pubic Comment - N. Filbin - Truck Traffic on Highland BoulevardFrom:Nancy Filbin
To:Taylor Lonsdale
Cc:Agenda
Subject:Truck traffic on Highland Boulevard
Date:Wednesday, March 23, 2022 12:14:46 PM
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Dear Mr. Lonsdale,
My partner and I live at 1103 Cherry Drive. It is on the corner of Highland and Cherry.
I previously wrote to you about the logging trucks and early morning Jake brakes. Weappreciated your assistance then.
As you know, Highland Boulevard is more and more being used as a truck route. Daily, the
logging and construction trucks with their heavy loads pass by relentlessly. Our little houseshakes and the peaceful neighborhood we once enjoyed is no more.
If it is in your power to do this, I suggest that an additional set of speed limit signs be placed
on Highland.
Right now, traffic turning left off Kagy Boulevard onto Highland heading north encounter a25 MPH sign immediately on the right hand side. I surmise that many vehicles fail to see this
sign, and most resume the 35 MPH speed they were traveling on Kagy. They do not encountera 25 MPH speed limit sign until Cedarview, and that sign is partially obstructed in a spruce
tree.
A second set of signs well before Cedarview might slow traffic and make our neighborhood alittle safer for the children and old folks like me who cross Highland to walk the wonderful
paved path (which the city has done an excellent job of plowing this winter!).
I hope you will consider this request, or if there is a different professional I should be writingto, that you’ll let me know that information. And if you’d ever want to come over for a cup of
coffee in my yard or driveway and observe the traffic, I’d be happy to make a good cup foryou.
Thank you,
Nancy Filbin
nfilbin@gmail.com406-579-2562
“The re-making of Bozeman’s built environment from an authentic place to a luxury retreatfor the wealthy is a slow-motion tragedy. It’s all the more tragic because we can prevent it.”
Steve Kirchoff, 3/23/22 letter to Bozeman Daily Chronicle