To the Editor:
So the Tisbury selectmen want to reconsider the library stop sign (July 30, “Tisbury selectmen want to reconsider stop sign”). This stop sign on the corner of Main Street and Greenwood was placed there in October 2012 after a full public hearing. I was there. Concerns among neighbors and library patrons were cited, in particular the safety of patrons parked in front of the library getting in and out of cars, often with small children. As a close neighbor across from the library, within spitting distance of the stop sign in question, I can attest to the fact that traffic heading out to West Chop on Main Street has been slowed considerably. That’s what stop signs do.
Note too that there are no speed limit signs posted on Main Street. Not a one. It is frankly a mystery as to why the selectmen would now consider reversing a solution to a safety problem which is working. The statement by one of the selectmen that “the stop sign … works for about 25 percent of the people that go through there,” that “everybody else goes through it,” and that “it’s not serving its purpose,” is puzzling. Seventy-five percent of drivers run that stop sign? If that were even remotely true, then it seems to me that what the selectmen ought to be considering is enforcing the law, not taking down the sign.
Jack Street
Vineyard Haven
