Like most clichés, the cliché “Life is full of surprises” does occasionally come to pass. So it is with the roundabout issue here on the Vineyard that I wrote about a while ago. Who would have thought that the Oak Bluffs Selectmen, no less, would actually reconsider a decision that would bring the town some money from the state? But, they did! And all Vineyard residents – not just Oak Bluffs residents – should be thankful.
Giving credit where it is due, I have to applaud the decision of Selectman Combra to announce that he felt a mistake was made. It took a certain degree of courage to oppose the traffic establishment of the Martha’s Vineyard Commission and the Oak Bluffs Highway Department, which, incidentally, is headed by Richard Combra, Jr. But, Combra appears to have listened to the pedestrians, the bikers, those who questioned the ‘experts’, and done the right thing. He and two other selectmen realized that it was wrong to try to solve a problem that may exist some years hence and only in the summer months. Maybe, there is hope that Oak Bluffs can improve its governance.
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