WHY CAN'T THE COUNTY LEAVE THE COUNTRYSIDE ALONE?

WHY can't the County just leave the countryside alone?

I was driving Delameter Road yesterday, and there was heavy construction going on with road crews halting & ferrying traffic from the top of Delameter to just before the West Side Highway junction. Ditches were being dug, new roadway was being laid, in some places, it looks like more than a 2-lane passage is in the planning, and one entire hillside was been built up (the towering pile of hillside wasn't there last month when I passed over Delameter).

Looking at it, all I could think was, "WHY are they ruining this pretty stretch of roadway?"

I went online tonight to find our what the heck was going on, and read that the County has decided to turn that stretch of the highway into a tourist trap like so many other small towns are doing with their countrysides. They are widening the road (which does NOT need it), adding a CONCRETE RETAINING WALL (which again, is not needed for the original road; but with all the revamping that is unstabalizing the hillside ...), and putting in bicycling and walking lanes - isn't it bad enough that we have to deal with citified bicyclists on our main roads without now giving them the country roads too, to cause traffic jams and accidents? And WHAT is the reasoning behind having "walking lanes" on Delameter?

The whole project is ridiculous and a total waste of time and monies that could better be used elsewhere for LEGIT reasons.

WHY CAN'T THE COUNTY LEAVE THE COUNTRYSIDE ALONE?

Delameter used to be a very nice 10 minute cross-over country drive to avoid downtown madness - if I wanted to see concrete retaining walls, bicycle lanes, pedestrian paths, ect. ON BACK ROADS ... I'd move to Vancouver!

Country roads should remain country - THAT IS THE BEAUTY OF THEM.

I am angry that County Officials have taken it upon themselves to decide what is "best" for county citizens without asking them what they think is best for them. I KNOW County citizens do NOT like the influx of annual city bicyclists that flood our region and take over the highways every year: and NOW they will be flooding and jamming up the backroads too, where there used to be serenity of natural scenic views, and peace of mind from the main road madness.

Very pissed right now ...