If the county transportation engineers truly were concerned about safety in the Deer Park/ Oakmont/Washington Grove area, they would have long since addressed the deplorable and hazardous conditions along Oakmont Avenue from Shady Grove Road to the Deer Park Bridge: actual flooding, huge mud holes, water traps that threaten people and vehicles long after rain subsides, unprotected public transit stops without sidewalk access or benches, badly deteriorated pavement and shoulders. All these in an area of numerous small businesses, enterprises the county certainly should be supporting, even while it courts the mega-businesses.

This is an area that transportation says it wants to make safe with a Four-Lane-Bridge-to-Nowhere designed for more traffic and at higher speeds.

The transportation study has specifically excluded the needs of Oakmont Avenue in its study. Go figure.

Ann Briggs, Washington Grove