I loved the Sept. 12 story, "Rumble stripe grumbles." It's good to know motorists are not the only ones annoyed by the stripes.
Before the stripes you could drive Minnesota Highway 23 without too much worry about oncoming traffic. Now about one third of all oncoming cars are in your lane to make sure they don't hit the stripes. This causes you to have to cross the stripes and listen to the annoying sound and feel the shudder of them.
Back when I was a kid we had to travel Minnesota Highway 169, which had an up-swinging curb on the right side of that highway. I would imagine it was for the same reason they have implemented the rumble stripe, calling it a safety feature. (Ha-ha!). I believe winter driving will be a real picnic with having to constantly swing to the right over the stripes to avoid head-on collisions.
Hats off to St. Louis County Commissioner Mike Forsman of Ely! I hope he will stay strong and not be bullied by bureaucratic red tape. I'm sure he will be at the top of the safety chain come winter when rollovers skyrocket as people swerve to the right to avoid head-on collisions. We may all have to move to his county to get around the high cost of auto insurance.
MichElaine "Mike" Rippentrop
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