Road to nowhere

Editor:

For five years we have looked down on the Old Nogales Highway from our La Perla apartment. Each year during monsoon season we watched the road flood — worse now with the new development across the road. The cars stop and many turn around. Others advance slowly across the river.

This year, there was lots of equipment and we hoped this would mean a culvert. Instead, to our amazement, an asphalt road was built — a road leading from the highway straight to the edge of a 10- foot arroyo full of water and mud. A road to nowhere — we thought, unless some poor person thinking it was the back entrance to La Posada, turned and drove into the ditch.

Today, I walked over to see the new road. It was obliterated by mud and new posts have been put in along the ditch — to stop any cars from going over.

What an ingenious design — why not a culvert in the first place? It has all been a source of amusement for us until we realized “That’s where our taxes go!”

Judy H. Harms, Green Valley