11-26-2024, 09:57 AM
Hi MFR helpers and leaders. Thank you for the amazing work you do! Unfortunately, this isn't going to be high praise, although I do want to recognize and commend your efforts.
Last night as I was returning home, and preparing to back into my driveway, a program participant was flashing their headlights incessantly trying to get me to move, and they were travelling quickly on lower main. I backed into my driveway, and let the guest wait. I also had to install a new battery in my personal truck and wanted to beat the incoming weather, so I came back outside with an assortment of tools to complete the task. What I observed was somewhat disturbing. Lower main has a posted speed limit of 10 mph. It's a dirt 2 track and the dust rises easily. Those of us living here know and have accepted that fact, and we appreciate the speed limit of 10 to try to control the dust, as well as the use speed. Last night there were a number of vehicles travelling above the speed limit, both into and out from the rescue. And I've noticed this regularly. For a while the residents had a sign in the road reminding users that the speed limit is still 10, and we mean it. Especially with the time change, lower main residents are getting home from work and walking their dogs etc in the now dark.
What I will ask, and my neighbors are free to join me, is that we continue to remind all of the recipients of this generosity that lower main is a residential street in Jamestown, and it has a posted speed limit of 10. I understand the desire to be home at the end of a long day, and we're all in a hurry, however that doesn't excuse bad manners.
Likewise I was ashamed to hear that some of the recipients who do not live in Jamestown proper were being told that the service was only for residents of Jamestown. If memory serves, the mission was to rescue food that is destined for the dumpsters at retail grocers and help ensure that we reduce food waste as a whole. If the folks who aren't from Jamestown are abiding by the speed limit and they are helping the project of reducing food waste, I'd say they are welcome.
Last night as I was returning home, and preparing to back into my driveway, a program participant was flashing their headlights incessantly trying to get me to move, and they were travelling quickly on lower main. I backed into my driveway, and let the guest wait. I also had to install a new battery in my personal truck and wanted to beat the incoming weather, so I came back outside with an assortment of tools to complete the task. What I observed was somewhat disturbing. Lower main has a posted speed limit of 10 mph. It's a dirt 2 track and the dust rises easily. Those of us living here know and have accepted that fact, and we appreciate the speed limit of 10 to try to control the dust, as well as the use speed. Last night there were a number of vehicles travelling above the speed limit, both into and out from the rescue. And I've noticed this regularly. For a while the residents had a sign in the road reminding users that the speed limit is still 10, and we mean it. Especially with the time change, lower main residents are getting home from work and walking their dogs etc in the now dark.
What I will ask, and my neighbors are free to join me, is that we continue to remind all of the recipients of this generosity that lower main is a residential street in Jamestown, and it has a posted speed limit of 10. I understand the desire to be home at the end of a long day, and we're all in a hurry, however that doesn't excuse bad manners.
Likewise I was ashamed to hear that some of the recipients who do not live in Jamestown proper were being told that the service was only for residents of Jamestown. If memory serves, the mission was to rescue food that is destined for the dumpsters at retail grocers and help ensure that we reduce food waste as a whole. If the folks who aren't from Jamestown are abiding by the speed limit and they are helping the project of reducing food waste, I'd say they are welcome.