Why are elected officials so afraid of tourists? When you remove all the stoplights, of course it’s going to make it extremely dangerous to cross Route 1. Why not remove stoplights in Lewes and Rehoboth? Of course there are businesses there, not residents of Delaware. We are expendable.
Nobody is doing 55 on Route 1, and when you approach Five Points – the speed limit is lowered to 45. Whenever I go into Lewes, I slow down, only to have numerous cars 5 feet from my bumper. It is only a matter of time until I am rear-ended or killed.
Show some mercy to those of us who live here. Enforce the speed limits and put back the stoplights – they decrease the speeding, and we all know speeding kills.
It is a joke; the tourists go 70 until they reach Lewes and then wait 15 to 30 minutes in a traffic jam. Stop spending money on unnecessary projects.
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