Voices: Problem-solving

City wants to buy weather radios for those without

Phil Jones had been working on a construction project outside his house all day on May 22 and was unaware that a tornado watch had been issued. Once he was inside, though, his weather radio went off, and he learned that a warning had been issued.

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June 24, 2009

Anonymous The Joplin Globe Wed Jun 24, 2009, 06:52 PM CDT

Joplin’s Dillons store is located well and likely will not be hurt by the proposed construction and changes of the railroad tracks nearby.

One suggests the rails should be lowered on 20th Street to avoid dangerous traffic patterns leaving Dillons. I hope it might be considered that adding a traffic light at New Hampshire Avenue on the east and closing both entrances to Dillons on 20th Street would solve problems referred to by a comment to another letter to the editor.

If all cars entered Dillons lot from the east, and a traffic light made entering 20th Street from New Hampshire Avenue safe, wouldn’t that solve the too-high rail problem? Tracks need to let trains run on the level. Cars can much more easily change elevation.

Ray Downen

Joplin

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