THEN I am not interested in patronizing your business either.

“when the store manager reminded employees it was time to move the cars”

THEN I would like to remind you that, after finding out who you are, I will not be using your business or services and I will encourage others NOT to do so as well. That includes the Theater if I find out their employess are violating the parking rules.

“The proposal would remove the rule that prohibits vehicles from being parked on the same street more than once in a day.”

YES, remove the restriction!

If Olin was such a good guy and so caring of birds then why didn’t he go to any of the local Olympic Bird Fanciers meetings to find out the real story before trying to take away their rights to use a public space with their birds?

At the end of this laughable story you might think Mr. Olin was some kind of bird whisperer. I tend to think it is more like the tyrannical banker that works hard to run all the poor people out of town, who is then pictured in the local paper dropping a dime into a homeless man’s hat. Cute, heartwarming, but hardly accurate and certainly not good journalism.

“…there’s an evolutionary purpose to the risk-taking behavior that teens seem compelled, despite their own better judgement, to engage in.”

Apparently, that purpose is to weed out the stupid ones so they don’t reproduce. Testing the boundaries of parental and other authority is certainly a natural, probably necessary stage of growth for children/teens and teaches patience in their folks. But what I learned from NatGeo, et. al. is that lemming behavior is a means of population control.

I always tried to convince my daughter to be one of the lemmings who skipped the big field trip.

Fair points. In reality I never did my drives from Kelly. I did them from Rocky Point. For the map I chose Kelly specifically because it was back in the neighborhoods, from a spot I more or less figured someone would have a 50/50 choice of going one direction or the other.

@Colleen,

I don’t know anyone fronting this as a “bright idea.” Most anyone who would use this route probably already does. I was late to this party.

Steven Gardner
Kitsap Sun

Well, I have facilitated a meeting for this next Tuesday (15th) between leaders and organizers of all the groups that will be affected by this project in the Naval Avenue area (Bremerton School District, Boys & Girls Club, Union Hill, Charleston Business District, the Bremerton PD, a Bremerton City Council member and Katy Allen the director of Public Works) to discuss and plan for the impact and safety issues concerning this project.

I will make sure that the city knows that despite the much considered, coordinated and engineered plans in place to route traffic with signs into higher capacity flow areas that can safely accept and handle the increased volume of traffic during the closure of 11th Street, alternative ideas with no consideration to safety, flow or capacity (only personal expediency) are being publically fronted from the armchair section as some sort of bright idea to follow.

Though I should point out, it doesn’t take much of a look at the map to show you’re hilariously wrong as to your route. You seriously didn’t notice the error of taking Kelly rather than Rocky Point? You really think the meeting point of the routes isn’t at Marine and Kitsap rather than way back in the neighborhood?