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704 Mel Kilbo, Chief (,f Police Orono -Long Lake Police Dept. 445 Willow Drive Long Lake, MN 55356 Dear Chief Kilbo: Enclosed is a letter to the Orono City Council regarding a nursery school -day care center proposal just east of us bordering the Luce Line Trail off Highway 12. We just wanted you to know this information and the danger it would be to have people with small children entering and leaving that particular corridor of Hwy 12. My father had written to you a couple years ago and also wrote to the Commissioner of the Highway Dept. regarding the accidents we have had near, in front of, our driveway. We all work or go to schoo' East of our residence(now that they have all graduated from Orono H,S.)and we all have the burden of trying to turn left into our home with traffic passing us on the shoulder and coming at us from the west. Both my son and myself have been hit. Both of our cars have been totaled. Also you may know that all of the mailboxes on the right shoulder (N) have -n wiped out and the last accident I know of was the first week of August when I signaled to turn left and cars were not slowing down and there were several fender benders behind us. The traffic on the freeway is traveling approximately 65 m.p.h. -('give or take 5 m.p.h as it turns into a 2-way residential area that is posted 45 m.p.h. I in our family, all slow down to 45 m.p.h. and every car behind us passes still traveling at least 60m.p.h. I don't know what the solution is - I thought that Highway 12 was going to bypass Long Lake! We know we have to signal, brake, brake and pray a lot. Maybe if there were enough "speed -traps" at that point the usual commuters would get the idea to slow down? The police department is welcome to sit in our driveway anytime. Thanks for checking it out a couple years ago in answer to my father's letter. Sincerely, Margie Bouley 915 West Wayzata Blvd. SEP - 5 Wayzata, MN 55391