Thursday, March 18, 2010

Editorial-Parking lot gate-Final draft

Since the beginning of the school year my mother has driven me to school every day because we share a car. This whole time we have had two different ways to get into the student parking lot. You could pull into the teacher parking lot and then go right to the student lot or just go up to the stop light and turn there.
Recently, option one was eliminated because the school closed the gate separating the two lots. Our school and community are both affected strongly by the gate being closed between the upper and lower doors of Eastview. Although it is a problem for the students, people who have nothing to do with the school are affected as well.
The closing of the gate affects all traffic in this part of Apple Valley. Traffic affects what time people get to work or school. It can be a very frustrating thing for people with places to be in the morning. Even more so if the place you need to be is Eastview. Eastview is located in a spot right in the middle of where many people live and have to go by or around it on their way to work in the morning. When cars are backed up from everyone trying to get into school, people going other places add up to the traffic and then everyone is stuck.
I hadn’t noticed this until the gate change. Up to this point my mom has had no trouble in the mornings. We would get held up at some stop lights and behind a small occasional line for the parking lot but that was minor and hardly noticeable.
Now people sit through about thee red light at the same stop light in the morning. This is because the cars are so backed up trying to get into the school there is nowhere for the cars to go when the light turns green. As you can imagine this is very frustrating.
The way this simple traffic jam affects people is endless. Adults begin to be late for work daily. Students are late for school, getting a tardy to first hour way to often to be over looked. So can these problems be fixed by re-opening the gate? I think it’s worth a try. Whatever the reason for closing the gate, it could not be a bigger issue then the one that is now affecting our whole community.

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