Ask Dominoes to tell him to not back up if it bothers you that much. Not a big deal at all with solutions in place if you don’t want to complain.

And Mr. Mathew no one should extend any part of the human body outside a car or truck when it’s in motion. I learned that from my driving teachers decades ago. To bad that you missed the lesson let alone the common sense of it.

And that comment about wind blowing a car dangerously around in the center lane? Cars weigh thousands of pounds and the wind speed to cause a car to be that unsteady exceeds winds created by passing cars or trucks even at 50 miles per hour. The speed limit is 35.

Mr. Longo you made some very fine points sir.

Thank you for letting us have a forum to speak.

Bob, uptown

Has Mr. Eaton considered that Milton Road in Flagstaff functions exactly the same as W89A in Sedona? And seemingly with much more traffic. How is it that people don’t constantly crab about wanting medians there?

Keep it up, folks, and it might be the straw that breaks ADOTs back and they really do say to Sedona “Here, the road belongs to you so do as you wish and PAY FOR IT!”

Go take a look at the short span of 89A presently owned by Sedona and note the complete dysfunctional design they came up with and the ongoing traffic jams.

Yes indeed things can always be worse.

All these arguments against medians is so bogus. They live with these in every city and the reduction in accidents that medians would bring would be enormous.

Drivers will learn to cope with the slight inconvenience of having to plan their route or perhaps make a u turn or do some business on the other side of the street and then returning on the other side.

Business would benefit because I sometimes avoid pulling into a shop when the traffic is bad or I don’t feel safe crossing to the opposite side. It is the perfect scenario to get T Boned.

Also done properly it could ad to some limited median landscaping which would make the street more attractive and not just a drive through hwy.

My vote goes for medians.

Ray Visser

This is a response to Henry Twombly’s response to my Guest Perspective in the Red Rock News. In fact, it’s a response to two of Henry Twombly’s letters to your publication.

First, yes – all of the eleven justifications I gave for 89A medians are true, and I’ve seen them all myself – including semi-trailer trucks unloading in the center lane, using hand trucks, on several occasions in three different locations on West 89A. Others have too. I didn’t make them up, and I could have listed more. If you haven’t seen them yourself, Henry, you don’t drive West 89A much.

Second, a response to an earlier Twombly letter in which he claimed that the process for drafting Sedona’s new Community Plan is being done in “secret meetings.” The Citizens Committee for the new Community Plan has held more than a dozen very public input meetings, and is soon to hold at least nine more – with more public meetings next year, followed by formal public hearings and an election. Twice a month the Committee meets, with legal public notifications. The Committee has published three mailers and a tabloid newspaper that went to everyone in town.

Well more than 1000 comments, ideas and wants have been received, cataloged and analyzed. There’s a column in the Red Rock News every month this year and next. There’s a special Community Room showing ideas and other information. The City has exceeded all requirements, and this process is probably the most thorough and open ever in the history of the State of Arizona, and possibly in the US. (Much more than any state or federal process.)

Please tell us what more can be done to satisfy you.
Jim Eaton

Instead of enjoying what we have, we are constantly being very critical of each other. Is that REALLY why we moved to Sedona? Can’t we leave that excess baggage behind? So what, if we get medians on 89A…they seem to have worked out quite well on 179 in the VOC. No businesses are complaining about lack of business on account of it.

Let’s just remember why we moved here in the first place before we become critical of everything that’s being done locally. Perhaps, what some of us need is an occasional change of venue to appreciate what we have. Let’s enjoy life in these beautiful surroundings in Peace and Harmony! Isn’t it about time we did?

Tom Longo
Sedona, AZ