For those of us unable to attend Tuesday night’s County Commissioners’ Forum, here is The Baynet’s recap (click here.) (You can watch the video of the meeting by clicking here>Board of Commissioners>video>1/7/14pm.) Nice to see Danny mention Bud and Beth:
“Former County Commissioner Dan Raley said of Route 5 for the final stretches of the county before it enters Pt. Lookout State Park, “The road ceases to be a road and becomes a paved path.” Raley observed that two well-known south county residents who are now deceased, Bud Ridgell and Beth McCoy, had pressured to have the road improved at the annual meeting the county has with Maryland State Transportation department officials. He urged the commissioners to reintroduce that topic with the state officials.”
I recall years back a Pt. Lookout visitor in Buzzy’s Country Store complaining about how narrow and poor the road was leading into the State Park. His comment was “You got a 10 million dollar park with a 10 cent road leading to it.” That’s about right.
My take on this is we should be making the place nice for those of us who live here year round and not just because tourists need or would like say a coffee shop. (Can’t you see it – Coming soon – Starbucks at Buzzy’s?!)
Tourists are tourists who, even if you don’t build it, will still come. (In fact, some of them come just because it is a little primitive and down home.) Bottom line though, the South County residents below Trossbach’s farm, should have a decent road that oh by the way makes it easier for Pt. Lookout State Park visitors to come and go also. Not the other way around.
