Regarding the widening of U.S. 70:
I am a business owner located at 4155 Statesville Boulevard. I would like to express my strong opposition to the proposed concrete and grass median in the middle of the highway.
Of course, my major concern is for my clients who would have to go past my business and make a U-turn in order to get here and have to head toward Salisbury and make a U-turn to head back home. This would cause much confusion and greatly increase the risk of collision and injury. We have many clients who bring in large animals in cattle and horse trailers. If these clients have to make U-turns with these trailers and back up in the highway to complete their turns, this leaves them wide open to collision and injury to both owner and animals. The same would apply to all our delivery trucks that bring medicine and supplies to treat our patients. While we are here trying to save animals’ lives, the highway situation in front of our hospital would be putting our clients and these animals at greater risk of injury and death if the median goes through. We highly value the lives of our clients and their pets and want to do all we can to keep them safe.
I feel that if the widening were done with a five-lane highway instead of a four-lane with median, it would work much better, just as the present three-lane highway has worked for years.
— R. B. Lowe
Salisbury
The writer owns Rowan Animal Clinic.
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