OrilliaMatters welcomes letters to the editor at [email protected]. Please include your daytime phone number and address (for verification of authorship, not publication). The following letter is in response to an article about increased traffic on Matchedash Street, published July 29.
Some things change; some don’t.
Hillcrest Park in 2020 was a popular park for children, families.
Fifteen per cent of the vehicles passing it are exceeding the speed limit.
Hillcrest Park in 2023 is still a popular park for children, families.
Fifteen per cent of 500 per cent more vehicles are speeding.
The intersections of Brant, Jarvis and Borland with Matchedash Street in 2023 are exponentially more dangerous than they were in 2020, because of confusion with real and imagined stop signs.
City staff decided in 2020 there was insufficient data to do anything.
City staff have decided in 2023 that there is insufficient data to do anything of consequence.
That hasn’t changed.
The inertia is exhausting. The push-back is nonsensical.
My conversations with countless neighbours tell me they all care. Why doesn’t the city?
That, too, hasn’t changed.
To the other neighbourhoods that have voiced concerns, I feel your pain, and wish your concerns were being listened to, and not discounted, as well.
Pat Reid
Orillia
