Editor, Gazette-Journal:

Last summer, Gloucester County made a series of handicapped crossings on both sides of Main Street to facilitate crossing with wheelchairs, baby strollers or similar people carrying or helping wheeled vehicles.

If you look at the crossings between the Courthouse Circle and the Pocahontas statue, you will see some have serious drainage problems, collecting dirt and other organic matter which will rot over time and become slippery if wet—not to mention what will happen when it is wet and freezes.

If left uncorrected, I fear that these crossings will create more handicapped people instead of making life easier for them. I did not check the other side of the Courthouse Circle, but it wouldn’t surprise me if there were other handicapped crossings with similar problems.

Perhaps the Gazette-Journal can bring this issue to the attention of the public so that the proper authorities can be notified about the situation so it can be remedied before someone ...