A suspect intersection and a pleas to save the trees are on
reader’s minds
Lack of Action on the Intersection Admission of Guilt by the City?
Dear Editor,
I just read the article about the sentencing of the driver who accidentally killed the child Brayan Trejo, while crossing at the intersection of 10th and Church streets. My heartfelt condolences continue to go out to the parents; however, the real killer is the green light in the place of the left turn light that tells you that you have a free left turn.
My daughter got in an accident there, my wife was honked at by a person turning left, thinking that he had a free left turn. The same has happened to me, more than once. That child would be alive today if he had a green light to cross, and the person turning left had a red. There should never be a light located where the free left turn is located, unless it is a free left. It is an invitation to an accident, and in this case the death of an innocent child. The city must change it, and change it fast. Or are they afraid that by doing so, that it would be an admission of guilt?
George LeDon, Gilroy
All the Trees on Hecker Pass Should be Saved
Dear Editor,
I’m responding to a letter printed May 3. I wholeheartedly agree that all the trees on Hecker Pass should be saved. As a longtime resident of Morgan Hill, you cannot imagine my grief one day pulling up to the light in the northbound lanes of Monterey Highway at Dunne Avenue to see workers removing the remnants of the two beautiful evergreens that once graced the entrance to Morgan Hill Elementary School. My first born attended kindergarten there.
The irony of this becoming our new senior center was overwhelming. Our two beautiful senior trees that had graced downtown for so very long eliminated! I wept! Unbelievably they replaced them with similar short trees in barely the exact same spot. Shame on whoever approved that!
K. Hernandez, Morgan Hill
