email our legislators

Glen Murphy has mailed the completed petition to the Governor, Department of Highways, and local legislators. Glen has done a lot of work and put together a great petition. Hopefully, they will fix the road before someone dies.

Actually, according to one local resident, there has been one death already. She said a young man drove his car off the edge of Circle Drive after swatting at a bee in his car. A guard rail would probably have saved his life.

Thanks to everyone who signed the petition. It wouldn't hurt for Circle Drive residents to follow up over the next few weeks and months. You can email the governor at Governor@WVGov.org. You can email Joe Minard at jminard@mail.wvnet.edu. You can email Bill Sharpe at wsharpe@mail.wvnet.edu. You can email Sam Cann at whocann@mail.wvnet.edu. You can email Ron Fragale at rfragale@mail.wvnet.edu. You can email Richard Iaquinta at iaquinta@mail.wvnet.edu. You can email Tim Miley at timmiley@mail.wvnet.edu.

I saw there was one study done on Circle Drive in 2002. The DOH looked at Circle Drive and made recommendations on what could be done. The said that 4 houses needed bought and demolished (at a a cost of about $350,000) to widen the north end of the road. I looked at those houses, and that recommendation is ridiculous. There is plenty of room between the road and those 4 houses to widen the road. The road could also be widen in other areas, but leave a few areas narrow, so as not to have to tear down a home and spend all that money. The old study also said they didn't know if there was real problem on Circle Drive or a "perceived" problem. I'd like to see the guy who did that study drive up and down our narrow road in the snow all winter and see how he "perceives" it then! The old study was obviously written with a slant to bury the project.