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Palm Coast Observer
Opinion

Florida Park Drive doesn’t deserve special treatment

Dear Editor:

I will continue to use Florida Park Drive as a cut-through.

I am dumbfounded at such a request: not to use a taxpayer-supported road. Florida Park Drive was designated by ITT city planners to be a feeder road between the C-section of Palm Coast and Palm Coast Parkway.

The “Drive” designation in Florida Park Drive is indicative of such feeder road classification.

Other examples of “Drives” in our areas are Farragut Drive, Flamingo Drive, Fleetwood Drive, Frontier Drive, Farmsworth Drive, Fellowship Drive, Club House Drive, etc.

People on Florida Park Drive are experiencing the typical “airport syndrome.” People buy houses near airports because the houses cost less. Later, they complain about the noise the planes generate and expect the airport management to shift landing patterns.

On the positive side, the “C” section is almost completely built out. The Interstate 95 interchange at Matanzas Woods Parkway will also help to lower the traffic on Florida Park Drive.

If owners on Florida Park Drive want no traffic in front of their houses, they should move to a quiet area without traffic. I would look at houses on a cul de sac, a minimum traffic area.

Lou Mecseri
Palm Coast

Florida Park Drive isn’t the only cut-through street in town

Dear Editor:

I saw in your news briefs in the July 9 issue where you put out news release from the city asking people to not use Florida Park Drive as a cut-through.

I would like to know what makes them so special. They are not the only cut-through street in the area. You have Fellowship, Frontier, Fleetwood and Farmsworth that are all cut-through streets in the same area and just as heavily traveled. What about us City Hall?

I have no problem with the number of vehicles that travel through Farmsworth Dr where I live. It is just the speeds the majority of folks travel at. At least Florida Park has sidewalks folks can walk on. Here you take your life in your hands to walk or ride your bike down the street.

Maybe Mr. Landon should spend some time on these other cut-through streets before he just singles out Florida Park Dr.

Ken Gistedt
Palm Coast

We pay taxes for Florida Park Drive, too

Dear Editor:

You have got to be kidding. The city of Palm Coast has the nerve to issue such a statement about what the residents of Florida Park drive perceive as a problem for them and ask everyone to avoid their public roadway because it bothers them.

I want to bring forth the issue I perceive as a real problem, and one that is going to get worse. Bird of Paradise Drive, possibly the oldest cut-through in the city that I'm aware of.

Here are some of the comparisons between the two: Florida Park first, has sidewalks; Bird of Paradise, three quarters of the road without sidewalks! Florida Park has two permanent speed monitoring devices on the road; Bird of Paradise has none! Florida Park get major press coverage forcing the city to act on their problems; Bird of Paradise gets none!

I have requested time and time again that the sheriff do something about the constant problem with speeders on Bird of Paradise Drive, and the most you get is about one hour of speed checks and some minor ticket writing, never during the times when speeding is at it's worst.

Belle Terre’s four-lane extension was supposed to alleviate the traffic on Bird of Paradise Drive, but no one seems to want to use it. Now we have an interstate exit/entry to bring even more vehicles on Bird of Paradise, which I'm sure will have truck traffic embedded in it.

One last issue to add to Bird of Paradise Drive problems: The major traffic for the high school. So if anybody needs a solution to traffic problems, I believe Bird of Paradise Drive should be at the top of the list.

Douglas Toth
Palm Coast