Is there anyone for "Driving While Intoxicated?" How irresponsible, dumb, immature, uneducated, reckless, selfish do you have to be to drive while you have been drinking or consuming drugs?

Do you know what kills more teenagers than all their illnesses, athletic injuries, drownings, shootings etc. combined? Automobile accidents! Publish that fact every day or week in your newspapers. "Widowed Parents" must speak out...

We know to stop at a red light. We know the maximum speed limit is 55 mph. We know not to pass on the right side of a vehicle. We know to stop at a stop sign, etc.

We do not need a mass of signs on intersections telling or reminding us of all these restrictions.

The advertising profession calls it "too busy." So many signs, one cannot read them. There are 13 on the intersection nearest to where I live. Each one is an eyesore.

If we were really serious about them, we would rotate them or change them often. As it is, they are stale.

I complained to the supervisor of the Town of Oyster Bay, John Venditto, about Tobay's DWI signs put up on NYS highways. Some were put in at an angle. Some only a couple of feet from the traffic. All an eyesore. None stating anything we did not know. Some politicians would have left them up because they had the supervisor's name on them.

We publically praise Tobay's supervisor, John Venditto, for removing them! He respects our intelligence, our levels of municipal properties and responsibilities, our effort for beautification for our areas and our desire for safety!

Let's face it, every law on the books could be put on signs - with a politician's name on it.

This is election time. Phone 935-6111 if you see a campaign sign next to a New York State Highway and it will be removed. Phone 571-6935 if a sign is near a Nassau County road for election purposes, and it will be removed. It's your countryside and property. (Incorporated villages do not have these eyesores.) I hope a sign does not change your vote.

Write every elected officeholder listed in the blue pages of your phone book and get our speed limit north of Rt. 25A (Northern Boulevard) changed to 40 from 55 mph (the sound is only two miles away).

John G. Peterkin,
Founder
Cedar Swamp Historical Society