I WANT TO THANK A FRIEND FOR TAPING THE OCTOBER 14th Cheshire Town Council meeting and uploading myself and my spouses comments about the traffic ticket he received this past August. THANKS A BUNCH.
You will notice my husband is told to “wrap it up.” Why? Because the powers that be don’t like this subject. They don’t like it when certain names are mentioned. But it is OK when your name is plastered all over the papers!!
Update: I did run into someone that is affiliated with the Town of Cheshire. I explained to this person, as I have explained in this blog beforehand, it is not the ticket, it was the misrepresentation of facts.
I will be honest now as I have been on this issue in the past. If my spouse had gotten a ticket for “unsafe” turn, I more than likely would have believed it. My husband is NOT a good judge of distances. But when the “complaint” was for not obeying this stop sign on Carriage Drive going onto Academy Road, which is IMPOSSIBLE NOT TO OBEY–NOT TO STOP, that became the issue. When he told me he got the ticket, several days after he had received it, I asked him IF he had in fact, pulled out too close to the police cruiser. I did ask him this. But when he told me he received the ticket for failing to stop at the stop sign, I knew something was amiss.
It was the same thing with L.N. supposedly going 52 miles per hour on Academy Road nearing the intersection of Rt. 10. It is pretty impossible to obtain that high speed day or night given the traffic and the layout of the road. This boils down to an inordinate amount of pressure being put on these police officers and other officers in other areas for that matter to PRODUCE-TO BE PRODUCTIVE. This is counterproductive and puts an unfair burden on these officers, the judicial system which is already strapped and the person receiving the ticket.
I have a lot of readers from outside Cheshire and outside Connecticut, so when I came across a couple of interesting memoranda that I happened to read from the Meriden Record Journal newspaper a few days ago, I decided to provide a link.
Now if you are from the Cheshire Connecticut area, you know all about the issues the Town of Southington is having with this proposed “Shoppes at Cheshire” which is a planned retail/housing development proposed by W/S Development of Massachusetts to be situated in Cheshire’s Interchange Zone. This Zone is located in land across from the entrance to I-691 and abuts the Southington line.
Besides public safety–the nearest firehouse is located in Southington, there is also a question of traffic and this “overpass” that would be constructed at the intersection of Rt. 10 and Rt.322. This is scheduled for construction in 2010.
Now Southington sent a list of concerns (questions) recently to W/S Development. The following is their response to the Town of Southington Engineering Department (for all of you who do not read the Record Journal or are readers from other parts of Connecticut and the country for that matter.
Note that Southington requests Cheshire NOT GRANT certificate of occupancy to W/S Development until road improvements to Rt. 10 and Rt/322 are made!!
INTERESTING READING!!
Click here for W/S response letter
I am running a video produced by Progressive Options Television (POTV), about the proposed Shoppes at Cheshire. I really love it when Sheldon Dill says “this might increase awareness of Cheshire.”
That is fine. But then we had better DECREASE THE POLICE MOTOR VEHICLE STOPS IN THIS TOWN BECAUSE THAT IS NOT A POSITIVE AWARENESS!!
So based on the revenue figures in the video, a ranch house in Cheshire that pays approximately $4,000 in property taxes would see a tax reduction of POSSIBLY $30!! But, would see increased traffic ALL YEAR LONG!!
Also, remember, the projected real estate taxes on the mall was based on figures BEFORE the real estate market collapsed!! So the value of the property is probably less right now (as of Oct. 2008). And that is based on 100 percent occupancy.
Also, while browsing the Record Journal, I came across a letter addressed to Cheshire Town Manager Michael Milone addressing mail service (or lack of it) in Cheshire.
Even though this concerns businesses, I know in my neighborhood, the mail service is not consistent. The mail is delivered sometimes early in the morning and sometimes 4 or 5 p.m. I have had to call the Post Office several times because of concern that mail may have been stolen, the deliveries have been so late.
We have had some problems in our neighborhood over the past few years, so when it gets to be 4 or 5 in the evening, you get worried. Let me put it this way, I could not set my watch on the mail delivery times in this town!!
On a different subject, I actually received a few phone calls from people who were upset over the “Featured Video” featuring Bill Ayers speaking. For those of you not familiar, Bill Ayers, who is a nightly person of interest now with Fox News who are attempting to link him with Barack Obama because their candidate is LOSING so they are getting desparate, was a leading member of the Weathermen (Weather Underground) of the sixties and seventies. The Weathermen bombed the Pentagon, banks, and various other corporate and governmental status symbols as a way of protesting U.S. Government policies.
FIrst of all, I DON’t CONDONE VIOLENCE. I DON’T CONDONE BOMBINGS. If you feel Bill Ayers should be in jail, that is perfectly fine. That is your right to expression.
I don’t totally agree with Bill Ayers, but I believe he makes valid points. I try to run all sides of issues on my website. Some people don’t agree but that is a democracy.
The 13 original colonies were ruled and controlled by England. A few of its subjects did not like the Government of England. These subjects believed they were being misrepresentated or not represented at all. These subjects did not agree with Englands domestic or foreign policies. What did THEY DO??? THEY WAGED A WAR, THEY KILLED PEOPLE. THEY OVERTHREW AND BROKE AWAY FROM THEIR GOVERNING BODY. DO YOU REMEMBER YOUR HISTORY??
