Pickerington Area Taxpayers Alliance

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From This Week in Pickerington:


Trustees agree to double lodging tax

Thursday, August 25, 2005

By MACKENZIE WHITE
ThisWeek Staff Writer


In other business, Pickerington City Councilman Mitch O'Brien told the trustees that the city is planning to ''once and for all, fix all the traffic lights on (state Route) 256.''

The city hopes to end up with a system similar to Gahanna's -- ''one of the best traffic control systems in the state,'' he said.

O'Brien said Gahanna's is a ''fully integrated system'' in which ''they can do adjustments on the fly.''

He said the system also can self-adjust during special events and things such as Friday night football games -- times when traffic on certain roads increases.

Pickerington City Council's finance committee on Monday discussed drafting an ordinance that would authorize the city to borrow money for the endeavor.



By Grouchy Old Fart

Don't Worry About The Traffic

Dear Grouchy,

Don't worry about the traffic on Route 256. The problem is about to be solved without any action by the City or the Township.

There are two interesting actions taking place right now.......

1) Gas prices are going so high that fewer people will be able to afford to drive anywhere beside work.

2) The housing bubble is about to burst. When this happens the benefit will be two-fold. First the anticipated increase in traffic won't happen. Second, we won't have all those dump trucks and construction crews clogging our roads.

Let me see. Energy prices through the roof and decent paying jobs leaving Ohio.

BY: Just watin' for the economy to tank.

By Just Waitin'

No, seriously

I think that you are right on some of your predictions, but forget anticipated traffic. We can't deal with what we have today. At least it seems he is trying to play the hand he was dealt. Today's volume isn't being handled.

KUDOS!!

By Grouchy Old Fart