RALEIGH COUNTY, WV (WOAY) — A resident who lives near Shady Spring High School — normally a five-mile drive, at most a 10-minute trip to her job at Beaver Creek Antiques, says is now taking more than an hour.
While they’re working on that stretch of road, Cubie Webb knows there has to be a better way than all of these delays.
“I can understand that there’s gonna be delays. You’re gonna get stopped in traffic,” Webb said. ” Everywhere you go there’s going to be delays. But an hour and a half coming five miles up is a little bit ridiculous.”
According to this concerned citizen, the road work has held up nine buses and an ambulance. She said you can’t get your kids to school or doctor’s appointments. They say stay off the road because they’re working on it.
“How can you stay off the road when you live that way — you have to go to work, you have to go home,” said Webb. “You’ve got sick parents, you’ve got sick kids, you’re sick yourself. You have to go.”
She says it’s hurting Shady Spring and Beaver businesses.
“The traffic is backed up down Raleigh Hill trying to get through Shady,” the concerned citizen said. “I just don’t understand why they can’t come up with an alternate route, an alternate something.”
Allotting so much time to do routine things makes planning anything challenging.
“You shouldn’t have to leave two hours before you have to be at work five miles down the road to get to work on time, because you don’t know where they’re working on the road and how long you’re gonna get held up,” said Webb.
She says she’s not blaming the companies doing the road repairs but urges them to consider the residents and come up with a different schedule.
“Like not do it before 10:00 in the morning, maybe stop at 5:00 in the evening, hold off when the traffic flow is really bad,” Webb said. “Surely, there’s got to be something that they can do to make things better.”