Dear Editor,
Every since reading Ms. McVey’s post regarding Fair Street on a local website I have debated with myself about responding. You see I also live on Fair St., between Anthony St. and Tollison St., and as Ms McVey complained, we do have our share of speeders. However, my office overlooks Luckie St (also a residential thru street) and it usually looks like a racetrack as well. Also I seem to recall that MLK has had some serious traffic issues in the past. In fact, let’s face it - people will speed when they can and Baxley is far short of the needed officers to keep each and every street patrolled at all times. As for Fair St., I have often seen patrol cars on our street both night and day. In the midst of the long lines of people who bring their children from all over the county to Trick or Treat on Fair Street, I appreciate the way they are extremely visible, keeping the little ones safe and the big ones in line! Often they are giving out candy too!
A response to a resident’s complaints on Fair Street
Fair Street is a very diverse street - we have fine well-maintained homes and yards, we have average homes with average yards (like mine), we have rental homes in varying stages of maintenance and we have abandoned homes with ill kept yards. We even have one who piles his clippings in the street around the corner! I have lived here long enough to remember when the city did not come down our street with the cutting and edging crew and the street sweeper came only a couple of times a year (if that). Long grass runners came out into the street and the tall grass and weeds blocked the vision at intersections. Drainage was blocked by the congested gutters filled with grass and debris. It looked more like a third world country than a nice residential street.
I personally appreciate the fact that the city recognized this problem and has done something about it! Granted, those yards where a great deal of money has been spent on sod obviously don’t need cutting or edging and should be left alone when these crews come thru, and probably have been. This could possibly have contributed to Ms. McVey’s opinion that “men’s yards” were not touched while “women’s yards” were “scalped”. I have not noticed any “scalping” myself and appreciate the efforts by the city to keep our streets attractive and as well drained as possible. It also saves me the money on hiring someone to edge our 130 feet of street frontage, as we are too old to do it ourselves.
So in conclusion, I say, “Good Job, City of Baxley” on cleaning up Fair Street! However, if you could slow down the traffic just a bit and do something about the abandoned houses and the trailer hooked up in the back yard of one of our neighbors; that would be great too.
Linda Cox,
also a resident of Fair St.
I personally appreciate the fact that the city recognized this problem and has done something about it! Granted, those yards where a great deal of money has been spent on sod obviously don’t need cutting or edging and should be left alone when these crews come thru, and probably have been. This could possibly have contributed to Ms. McVey’s opinion that “men’s yards” were not touched while “women’s yards” were “scalped”. I have not noticed any “scalping” myself and appreciate the efforts by the city to keep our streets attractive and as well drained as possible. It also saves me the money on hiring someone to edge our 130 feet of street frontage, as we are too old to do it ourselves.
So in conclusion, I say, “Good Job, City of Baxley” on cleaning up Fair Street! However, if you could slow down the traffic just a bit and do something about the abandoned houses and the trailer hooked up in the back yard of one of our neighbors; that would be great too.
Linda Cox,
also a resident of Fair St.
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