Mr. Radabaugh,
While we appreciate your continued efforts to accommodate our need for road repairs, it is completely inappropriate that you send this email less than 24 hours before our community meeting, when we have very little opportunity to inform the community and prepare our questions.
In the previous email, we were a paving project not a reclamation project, before that we were a reclamation project and funding was denied, before that we were a repair project for a rainy day. We have continually been promised temporary and permanent repairs, first by as soon as possible, then by summer end, then again by fall and now with your current email it appears that we have no determinate time, which could mean years. Additionally, by sending the new request for funding yet again, our project is back to where it started- at square one…. waiting. How does that all change so quickly? We believe these responses are nothing more than glorified stall tactics.
These roads are horrendous! They are a danger to the children who are being bused through them daily, there is continual damage to resident and utility vehicles and they are a threat to everyday life by slowing Emergency personnel. This community has been more than patient while various options have been explored and rejected time and time again. The fact is there are logging and utility access roads in this community that are more safe, stable and passable than these roads that we travel daily!
Furthermore, Tunnel Hollow continues further than the .25 miles you address in this current email. There is an additional half mile of road that requires the most urgent and permanent repair. This additional half mile is the only emergency/alternative exit or entry for the entire community and the nearest emergency entry/exit for the first half of this community’s residents. Without addressing this last half mile, your project is incomplete and endangers lives. Terminating the project at .25 miles is thoroughly unacceptable to the residents of Prickett’s Creek and Tunnel Hollow Rd’s..
It seems as though you are the person with the answers and we would like the chance for the community to talk with you about the concerns this community has. We respectfully request that you personally attend this meeting, tomorrow evening, Tuesday August 24 at 5pm, to further explain these changes.
We need definitive answers and immediate action, not continual stall tactics!
Carrie Heston and Melissa Brodsky, Resident/Concerned Citizens Taking Action
Heston-Rt 4 Box 588, Prickett's Creek Rd. (CR 80)
Brodsky-Rt. 4 Box 569 B, Tunnel Hollow Rd. (CR 31/11)
Fairmont, WV 26554
304-816-3522 Heston home
304-694-1132 Heston cell
(304) 366-1420 Brodsky home
(304) 282-2260 Brodsky cell
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