Proposed Publix on Romany Road will make Chevy Chase traffic much worse | Opinion
.jpg "Publix plans to tear down the existing 26,000-square-foot shell of the former Romany Road Kroger and build a nearly 38,000-square-foot store with two levels of underground parking.")
Publix opposition
The proposed Publix to be built on Romany Road will be a traffic nightmare.
The traffic congestion on this road is already impossible and does not need to be increased. Cars are parked on both sides of the street which is a great concern for safety. If the overflow parking from restaurants AP Suggins and The Tulip Bistro and Bar is taken away it will only get worse.
What would be better is a small market with just the basics, considering there are two large Kroger stores in the vicinity. City traffic engineers need to consider limiting parking on only one side of the street in this locale and most neighborhoods. Traversing the streets around this area of Lexington is already an accident waiting to happen, especially when events are being held at Ecton Park. Kids are darting out between parked cars and not always under supervision. After the local schools let out, there are children all over Romany Road. I think it’s a miracle that there hasn’t been a disaster.
More care needs to be given to planning by the city and less to increasing its coffers(taxes) with more unnecessary businesses. Once again-money talks, safety walks!
Sara Wellnitz, Lexington
Vote Democratic
Steve Nussbaum in his Aug. 8 op-ed (“You should probably vote Democratic this fall if you believe ...”) made some interesting points, though he mischaracterized many views typically associated with Democrats. He left out three of most important reasons to vote Democratic this fall: 1) Republicans are led by a very old and ill man who has lost his grip on reality and can’t string words together into a coherent sentence. 2) His running mate—a “heartbeat away”—is the weirdest politician since George Santos and thinks Kentuckians are lazy and dumb. And 3) Republicans want to turn America into an autocratic and theocratic state through their Project 2025.
In other words, Vote Blue or don’t bother voting four years from now.
David T Miller, Lexington
Compiled by Liz Carey