I know it’s been a long summer with all of the construction on the U.S. Highway 550/160 intersection. Many people have expressed their opinion on how things should be done. I would like to offer a suggestion on how to relieve the stress while traveling in this area.

Make it fun and educational. Beginning at Albertsons, have your kids read all of the signs. By the time you get to the Durango Mall, they will be able to read about a hundred words per minute. To help them with their math and geography, have them follow the arrows and numbers that point to the north (DMR and Canada), south (Farmington and Mexico), east (Bayfield and New York) and west (Mesa Verde/Cortez and California), where their drought is way more serious than a road project. If you’re lucky enough to hit the red light at the intersection, have them marvel at the life-size statue of the petrified dinosaur spleen. Your future scientists can look up on their smartphone what a spleen does and what kind of critter this thing came from.

After it’s all said and done, it seems like the new improvements will work, and we’ll get use to it. (Heck, we figured out a roundabout.) Then we can get back to the Bridge to Nowhere.

Bob Rydiger

Durango