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I like the Mayor and think he has done a lot of good for the city. But it really grates on me when he makes excuses for not being able to make improvements to things when other cities in RI and elsewhere seem to be able to make them happen perfectly well. Efforts to improve West Shore Road? Sorry, state road, not the Mayor's problem. Close access to Conimicut Point Park earlier? Sorry, makes police access tough, can't happen. Add speed patrols on Point Avenue? Sorry, that gets residents tickets. Add speed bumps on city roads? Sorry, gets in the way of plows. Add stop signs? Sorry, people ignore them. Add cameras? Sorry, the city gets only 5 and can't spare one in Conimicut. Well, where are the affirmative ideas to solve the real, actual problems being raised? Why can Cranston have speed bumps on Narragansett Boulevard? Why can Apponaug get stamped crosswalks and curb bumpouts to control car speed? If some people ignore stop signs, does that make them irrelevant for everyone? If so, let's pull out all stop signs everywhere. These issues are bread and butter things that all mayors address daily in all cities. There are literally hundreds of ways to try to address each one, with pros and cons based on many factors. It is really disappointing when the overall response of our Mayor is that the ones suggested do not work, and no other ones are raised, and Warwick remains the same place with the same problems that we who have lived here a long time have endured for decades without change, and have endured for decades under this Mayor without change. We are not stupid. We travel, sometimes even as far as Cranston, and we see what is possible. Hey, shake things up, try a new stop sign. Try one speed bump. Try a bump out. Try road stencils. Try speed patrols. Try road diets. Try road reconfigurations. Try new signage. TRY SOMETHING. AND IF THAT DES NOT WORK, TRY SOMETHING ELSE. BUT ABOVE ALL, TRY SOMETHING. (paraphrasing FDR)