To the editor:
When cities are growing and want to attract more people and businesses, one of the primary things they do is increase the capacity to handle traffic. They do that both by increasing the number of miles of streets and by adding lanes to existing streets.
As we can see from the actual decrease in the number of traffic lanes both on West Main and West New Road, it is obviously the policy of the city of Greenfield to discourage both business and people from moving here, because they have taken four-lane streets and turned them into a single lane in each direction.
And now North State Road 9 is also about to have significant changes made to it. For one thing, that wide center lane that allows us to turn left and enter whatever business that we want to will be eliminated. We will have to drive past the business, make a U-turn and drive back to where we want to go!
So, Greenfield will now be even more difficult to drive in. I do not know a single person who likes the changes to Main Street and New Road.
And while I also hate those changes, I personally like it that the city is now discouraging people and businesses from moving here. I prefer the slower pace of the old Greenfield with fewer people and businesses. And boy, is it slower, since we are stuck driving at the slowest speed of all of the cars, trucks, buses and farm equipment ahead of us.
Bill Reed
Greenfield
