INC NEWS - [TrinityPark] RE: agenda and proposed resolutions for April 25 meeting

[Susan Gaylord]

Dear Newman and All,

Thanks for this notice.   As compassionate as it may seem (to some) to 
support roadside solicitation, my experience as a driver in Durham and 
Chapel Hill has convinced me that soliciting on foot by the side of 
roads and highways is NOT safe or helpful to drivers -- no matter what 
individual or organization is doing the soliciting.  For example, I was 
involved in a near-miss situation on Guess Road, when the driver in 
front of me stopped suddenly during a GREEN LIGHT and leaped out of the 
car to purchase a newspaper from a median-vendor. My slamming on brakes 
and swerving into the other lane prevented a possible rear-ending.  And 
multiple vendors who appear with buckets at busy intersections (e.g. New 
Hope Commons intersection) can cause multiple automotive chaos, however 
careful they try to be, with drivers slowing down, reaching into their 
pocket-books for change, and being distracted by solicitors walking into 
traffic lanes -- in my personal experience.

- Susan Gaylord
Markham Ave.





Newman Aguiar wrote:

>* Vendors in Roadside Right of Way -- FINAL VOTE
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>"We, the membership of the Inter-neighborhood Council, support a change to 
>Durham's current solicitation ordinance that would bar solicitation from 
>rights-of-way in Durham."
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>I hope sufficient neighborhood reps show up for the April 25 meeting to vote
>this down.  There has been significant discussion on this issue and it
>troubles me that INC would take up a resolution in support of a change, even
>though strong evidence has been shown, that such a change would do little or
>nothing to address the current situation.
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