To the editor:

The city engineers, those same folks that have brought us the plague of roundabouts, are going to apply for a $2.5 million state grant to pay to “fix” the problem at K-10 and East Hills. Their plan calls for lots of digging and moving roads around, things that engineers love to do.

Let me suggest an alternative plan that seems to work in other parts of the country.

1. Reduce the speed limit to 55 mph beginning at least a half-mile east of the East Hills entrance. With the East Hills access, and with Franklin and O’Connell roads within a half-mile, there is too much cross traffic to warrant a faster speed limit.

2. Put up warning lights over the intersection and on existing (at least westbound) triangular traffic signs. Two triangular warning signs facing the westbound lanes are all that are currently in use. Place flashing red lights facing the access roads reminding drivers to come to a full stop and flashing amber to warn drivers on K-10 of the potential hazard.

3. Increase patrols in the area and pass out lots of citations to enforce the changes.

It seems pretty simple to me. But then my degrees aren’t in engineering and I no longer enjoy digging in dirt and bending things to my will.

David Bishop,

Lawrence