City's street and stop sign need attention

To the editor:

I have lived in Cape Girardeau all my life. The streets are horrible. The city starts new projects that usually are not a problem and leaves the really bad spots alone.

Look at northbound Kingshighway crossing Southern Expressway and Bloomfield Road. The pavement has waves in it around 6 inches high. If you don't drive in the dips, your car goes all over the place.

Another problem is the stop sign at the intersection of Bloomfield Road and Koch Avenue. The sign was hard enough to see before the city recently put in new sidewalks, but the workers moved the sign even farther away from the road. Now it is blocked by bushes. I live on Koch, and anywhere I go I have to take that route. When it comes time to cross, I have to make sure there are no cars coming for quite a way, because I am afraid that I am going to be hit. I have lived in this neighborhood for seven months and I can't count how many times I have almost been hit by someone flying through the intersection without blinking an eye

MATT LOVEWELL

Cape Girardeau