Road Closure Update

When a neighbor called the project manager about the inadequate signage, he said, 'You can't fix stupid.' When the long weekend started we moved the barriers - but still traffic kept going past our house.

Chris's mailbox got creamed, flattened, Tuesday night. But still, people keep coming down the road, around the barriers, around the second set of barriers, and of course they

have to stop. Even a Sherman tank would have trouble getting around this ditch with the bulldozer parked at the edge.

We come home from a very lovely ride in the park at Seneca/Black Rock Mill. The barriers at the intersection are there, plain as day, and a car is coming out. It is NOT one of our five neighbors. Another car is stopped in front of the barrier. We are trying to make the left onto our road and the car coming out won't pull out onto the main road. The barriers were moved so there is room for only one vehicle.

He's gesturing for them to come out, the passenger is mouthing 'road closed.' Duh. We can read. The road is closed. We need to make the left, they don't know whether to make a left or a right and are paralyzed. He's now yelling, 'we live there!,' pointing to the house on the corner. She's continuing to say 'road closed.' The driver is looking on his hand-held navigator. The passenger is saying, 'road closed.'

The other car backs up and goes around the barriers on the right, onto our neighbor's yard. Now there is a car behind us. He pulls onto our neighbor's yard, following the other lost driver, with the horse trailer, through her grass. YIKES! It is already turfed from drivers that cannot believe the road is really, really closed.