Richard Weiglein: If city has money for College ‘diet’ it has too much

Re “College Avenue diet set to be approved by Modesto council” (Page A4, July 14): I read that our cash-broke city has found enough money to spend $1.5 million to screw up another street with a so-called DIET plan. How do they think by making College Avenue a two-lane street, instead of four lanes, will increase traffic flow?

Since when do we have so many bikers in Modesto? I live near and drive Briggsmore Avenue every day and maybe have seen two bike riders in the last month. But boy, do we have nice green bike lanes and signs that drivers have too yield to bikers at intersections. I think our traffic planers have bike lanes on their brains instead of what is best for car drivers. How do they get all this money to waste when the mayor is trying to get a tax raise on the ballot? Do they think we are that stupid?

This story was originally published July 20, 2015 at 7:01 PM with the headline "Richard Weiglein: If city has money for College ‘diet’ it has too much."