This idea falls flat. The preposterous notion of putting a traffic circle on an arterial road was swiftly withdrawn when the sheer folly of it was pointed out. There is wisdom in slowing traffic through the center. Putting traffic signals both at Valley Road and at the entrance to the Police Athletic League center up the hill makes excellent sense. Along with the light at Yorklyn Road, they will enable both vehicular and pedestrian traffic to get across the pike safely.
Some residents believe it is an artificial attempt to make something that never was.
But others see it as an opportunity to beautify Hockessin and make the main road safer. The decision is now primarily an aesthetic one that the residents in Hockessin ought to approve or reject, perhaps at a meeting of the Greater Hockessin Area Development Association. The association is the closest thing to a local government there is in the area. The organization he inherits from MBNA Senior Vice Chairman Lance L. Weaver is much stronger than what existed just a few years ago. The United Way of Delaware is on a roll.