Highway 100 bypass just a slow-pass

Having lived in many different cities and states, we are back home in Cedar Rapids/Marion. Everywhere but here, a bypass is a way around a city or a heavy traffic area and thus faster than going through cities and traffic in those cities.

Now we drive the Highway 100 “bypass” around Marion almost daily. We are finding while it may be called a bypass, it is indeed a “slow-pass.” It no longer saves time or miles. Instead, it now has seven traffic signals!

Yes, yet another stoplight or traffic signal is being added to the bypass. I now believe that our bypass takes us pretty much the same amount of time as driving through town.

Had this bypass been made without all the access to intersections bisecting the bypass, we would not have these problems.

Please note you do not see traffic signals on Interstate 235 around Des Moines or, for that matter, I-380 around Cedar Rapids. Those are bypasses because they truly are just that.

Please, all you folks sitting on city councils, and those designing the streets and bypasses, give us real bypasses.

The Highway 100 bypass is just an extension of Collins Road.

Suzanne Shea

Marion