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| Written by Nancy Hull Rigdon | |||
| Tuesday, 23 February 2010 01:00 | |||
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The Smithville Area Fire Protection District probably won’t be able to do anything more to warn motorists on U.S. Highway 169 that a fire truck needs to enter traffic. During the fire board’s meeting yesterday evening (Monday, Feb. 22), fire chief John Callahan said a representative from the Missouri Department of Transportation said that if the district wants a traffic light on the highway near the fire station, the district would have to fund the $150,000 project. That’s too much money, Callahan said. The station sits on Park Drive, across the highway from Quik Trip. When a fire truck needs to head to a call, fire truck drivers can have difficulty pulling out into highway traffic. If the fire district did fund the light, it would not be a regular traffic light. The fire district would control the light, and traffic would only stop when a fire truck needed to leave for a call. But considering the fire district doesn’t plan to spend $150,000 on the project, don’t expect to see this light. If anything develops with this, I’ll let you know. - Nancy Hull Rigdon
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