Letter: Too much invested to defund road now

Regarding the Feb. 10 Gazette article 'Defunding urged for Tower Terrace Road”:

Brandon Whyte, multimodal transportation planner for the Corridor Metropolitan Planning Organization, said the reason to defund Tower Terrace Road was because 'pushing that much traffic through a busy rail line like that one is not ideal” is a very weak reason.

He admits that Tower Terrace would carry much traffic, thus it would be needed to relieve traffic on Boyson Road, but ignores that there are already 'at grade crossings” on Blairs Ferry Road (which carries far more traffic than Tower Terrace ever would), on the busy Boyson Road, on Robins Main Street, and on County Home Road.

This project has been in planning much too long to be defunded at this time.

James Hubert

Robin