Dear Editor,
I have just read that county commissioners Kevin Beckner and Ken Hagan are working with the SCC Area Chamber of Commerce to create a golf cart crossing of S.R. 674 at Cortaro Drive to provide access to the restaurants on the south side of the boulevard. This is a great idea that deserves the support of anyone who cares about those who depend on golf carts for daily transportation.
It took three years, a massive petition drive, and a push from Commissioner Beckner to win golf cart access across U.S. 301 to Wal-mart. Let’s not have that kind of obstruction again.
The signs are encouraging. The Walmart crossing has been hugely successful. A new traffic light at Stoneham Drive and El Rancho has made that crossing much safer. A new golf cart access to the Publix/Kings Crossing shopping center has been installed.
There have been years of talk about golf cart access to the restaurants on the south side of S.R.674, but the cost and problems of installing an additional cart path have been prohibitive. We may get that new southside path along S.R. 674 in years to come, but for now, expanding the use of the traffic signal at Cortaro Drive to include golf carts looks like a simple, safe and cost-effective solution.
Let’s go for it!
Paul Courter
Sun City Center
Dear Editor,
$100,000, that’s a lot of money to be spent on something that looks very good as it is [SCC Observer cover story: “Sun City Center to have complete charge of medians in 2017,” 9/17/15].
That money would help fill a lot of food banks that are within a few miles of that median “make-over.”
If this doesn’t fit your fancy, how about the Shriners Childrens Hospital or helping some of our disabled Vets?
How about helping animals that are abused by humans and then left to die?
How about helping our “No Kill Pet Rescue” or C.A.R.E. and last but not least our local Humane Society?
That money could be divided up to help all of the above. It is really the tax-payers money, of which we are part of [sic], and we think there are better places for it to be used than re-doing that median strip.
Name Withheld by Request
Sun City Center
