Inexplicable

   Probably because there is not a lot of traffic, at any given time, but so far the traffic pattern on Route 67 to make a left turn on to State Street is merely a disaster waiting to happen instead of an invitation to imminent disaster.  I don't think there have been a great number of accidents there, and that's a good thing, but it must be due to the grace of God or just plain luck. Or maybe it's because not a lot of  drivers are turning left to go up State Street, and those who do so have learned to exercise extreme caution.
   First, the average sized driver of a passenger car cannot see an  approaching vehicle which is continuing on Rte. 67 and staying  left as it leaves the bridge until the two vehicles are very close.  The vehicle turning left to go north is directly in the cross-path of the east-bound vehicle. If  drivers coming over the bridge are proceeding at even a slightly high rate of speed, they are not visible to the drivers trying to turn left on State Street until they are almost on top of them.  I may add that the latter drivers very frequently stop in the midst of their turn to allow the bridge-crossing vehicle to pass by.  But I have not known  a single time when one of those east-bound drivers has slowed or stopped to allow passage. 
   Second, I believe that the drivers crossing the bridge assume they have the right of way and maybe they do: even though they are turning left, they are on a State Route.  But the other drivers, heading south, do not have a stop sign, a yield sign or any other cautionary device except the common sense that tells them to beware of  something coming around what is essentially a blind curve. 
   I have commented on the above situation before, but my apprehension was increased today because as I was trying to turn left to go up State Street, I had to stop not just once, but FIVE separate times in the process.  The vehicles crossing the bridge were in sequence, but not that close together.  Each time I moved forward a little only to see another car coming.  Not only did none of those vehicles slow down, the  drivers all  glared as if I were offending them.  There was a car behind me at the time waiting to turn right onto the bridge, and he waited patiently, seeing there was no other recourse.
   As long ago as when we moved to Valley Falls, when there was much less traffic, there had always been some sort of traffic device at what used to be a normally constructed intersection.  Earlier, there had been a light in the middle of the intersection, and later a stop sign on Rte. 67 before the bridge.  And in those days, before they "re-did" the bridge, visibility was much clearer.  You could see across the bridge, and up the main street.  The latest bridge design must have been the product of someone with a major defect in the part of the brain that designs highways.  I can't believe that anyone would sign off on the traffic pattern carrying traffic across the bridge to make a right turn toward the ball park.  It defies any sense of reasonableness.  There were a number of accidents at the "intersection" at first, but the low speeds only resulted in fender-benders so that avoided any major disclosure of idiotic highway design.  I guess even engineering colleges have someone at the bottom of the class, and who better to head a project in Valley Falls.