Before the snow, there was a wreck on our perfectly safe one-way street.

As posted by Greg Roberts on the Two Way Streets Now page at Fb.

"Another traffic accident on Spring Street! Car trying to cross Spring Street at 10th and oncoming speeding vehicle slams into the side of the other vehicle and one of them ending up nearly in the building. If someone had been standing or walking on the sidewalk at this point they would have been killed! So, maybe Irv Stumler can cherry pick the metal off the street. Also, our police officers doing everything they can, but can't be everywhere at once!"

Coincidentally, while walking yesterday a few hours after the accident, I saw a school bus and a police car driving westbound together on Spring at precisely the same intersection. The bus was in the north lane, and the police car in the south lane.

Q. What did these two vehicles have in common apart from excessive speed (which we take as a given)?

A. Each occupied half its own traffic lane, and most of the bicycle lane immediately to its side, and this is the norm, not an aberration.

But hey; whatever. We only see the problem every single day. Perhaps the ability to occupy all the lanes at once makes Mr. Padgett's cranes safer.

Right, Irv?