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Dave Morris's avatar

This city ends help. I don't mean rocket scientist. I mean people with common sense. Anyone who has lived here more than a few years gets it. The traffic at rush hour is beyond anything I thought it would be. 14 years ago you could drive and not have major delays. Now you can't drive anywhere and direction at anytime without spending 30 minutes or more to get there. The genius is in the master plan. Let's talk one road San fillip. One lane each way very few left turn at lights . No right turn lanes. No lights at major intersections. Common sense would say eventually over time this city would grow. So lack of seeing what could be traffic wise we line San fillip with houses. God knows this city needs impact fees and property taxes. By design and poor planning there is no room for more than one lane each direction. Regardless every intersection should be built with left right and through lanes for each direction. If they would even consider a center turn lane in the middle between north and south bound lane it would make driving safer. Traffic lights at major intersections let's just pick Eldron at San fillip. Try to get across that at 7 to9 am or 3 to 8 pm it is beyond stupid. First thing we need it driver education in high school. A whole semester of rules of the road. What the lever on left side of steering wheel is and how to use it. Along with every other common sense rule they could teach. Acceleration lanes and decel lanes on 95. Entering 95 at 35mph means you take your life in your hands. Just think about 2700 new home in emerald whatever the name is this month 5400 minimum new cars on the roads that have no chance of supporting the traffic already. Drive down every street in this city and there is 2 or 3 new houses under construction and 2 or 3 already built. So over the last 7 years I would think the population in palm bay has doubled. What has the city done aka following the city charter? Fire police water sewer roads? Have no money yet need a new city hall bs. Work with what you have learn like every other family to live within their means. Grow the infrastructure then add more people. A long rant but this city council and city manager needs to be replaced.

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Rosemary Kramer's avatar

This is the reason I asked for a moratorium on new residential building permits. We have to catch up on the infrastructure, roads, water sewers, police, fire department, and hospitals

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