{"id":29692,"date":"2018-05-10T01:40:04","date_gmt":"2018-05-10T01:40:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=29692"},"modified":"2018-05-10T01:40:04","modified_gmt":"2018-05-10T01:40:04","slug":"where-are-the-cops-when-you-need-them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=29692","title":{"rendered":"Where are the cops when you need them?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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I don’t like using this blog as a forum for complaining about municipal services … but I’ll make this brief exception.<\/p>\n

The Amarillo Police Department needs to post a traffic officer at the intersection of Amarillo Boulevard and Soncy Road around, oh, 5 p.m. every work day. The huge medical center’s work force is heading for home about that time.<\/p>\n

If you’re traveling in either direction along The Boulevard, it’s impossible to get through the green<\/em> light — which is the signal for motorists to proceed<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Why is that? Because motorists who are southbound on Soncy are blocking the intersection because traffic has backed up north of Interstate 40. That’s<\/em> why!<\/p>\n

I’m looking out of the city’s financial condition here. There’s lots of revenue to be gained by police issuing tickets to those who block intersections, which I believe is in violation of city traffic ordinance.<\/p>\n

I also am looking out for the peace of mind of motorists who get caught by fellow<\/em> motorists who aren’t courteous enough to keep the intersection clear while they wait to proceed.<\/p>\n

There. My rant is now over.<\/p>\n\n

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I don’t like using this blog as a forum for complaining about municipal services … but I’ll make this brief exception. The Amarillo Police Department needs to post a traffic officer at the intersection of Amarillo Boulevard and Soncy Road around, oh, 5 p.m. every work day. The huge medical center’s work force is heading … Continue reading Where are the cops when you need them?<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[325,339,2301,7750],"class_list":["post-29692","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news","tag-amarillo-police-department","tag-amarillo-traffic","tag-interstate-40","tag-soncy-road"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29692","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29692"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29692\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29693,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29692\/revisions\/29693"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}