Wal-Mart on the Lake

To the Editor,

Putting a Wal-Mart in Bath is a bad idea. These roads can barely handle summer traffic let alone the increased traffic of 350 employees, truck deliveries all hours of the day and night and whatever customers they can draw into their already over-saturated market. If Wal-Mart is bent on opening another super center however, I have the perfect place for it.

Right here in Hammondsport. On the lake. Right next to those half million dollar condos. (They were supposed to be quarter of a million but that was three years ago and I'm sure construction costs have gone up since then.) Since the owners of these luxury condos will be paying less property taxes than those of us with 100-year-old houses valued at one-fifth the price of these condos, it would seem that they are financially challenged. Paving them with Wal- Mart and it's "always low" prices seems like a natural fit. They will save even more money because it would be right next door and they could walk there. We know how much gas cots these days. Walking is good exercise too. It could also help the residents of the "housing project" the boards of Hammondsport and Urbana are forcing down our throats. Just like they did the condos.

It's painfully obvious that Anne Green and her ilk on the Hammondsport and Urbana boards couldn't care less about what their constituents thinks. Witness failed referendum after failed referendum being put up for vote after vote after vote. "Just say no" doesn't work with these "supposed" holders of Public Office. I do hope they will consider this idea, however. It would seem our friends the condo owners and housing project residents need our help.

Shouldn't we help our neighbors? Joseph F. Farren Hammondsport