Most Spearfish residents are pretty patient. For a demonstration of this extraordinary patience, head over to Exit 14 (Wal-Mart Exit) and observe the drivers navigating their way through the blinking red lights. One-by-one, these patient souls take turns going over or coming off of the overpass. It’s slow, agonizingly slow, especially during the heavy traffic hours.

Now and then, the traffic lights at the Wal-Mart Exit are turned on. This is when the patience runs thin. Some folks are seen deliberately running the red lights while others are seen taking a quick nap or walking down to the gas station for a refreshment before it’s their turn to finally move forward.

“Massive lines of cars form and twist into knots when the traffic lights are turned on over at the Wal-Mart Exit in Spearfish.”

The South Dakota Department of Transportation designed the intersections and manages the traffic lights at Exit 14. The City of Spearfish is doing what it can to get the SDDOT to fix things properly. The SDDOT claims to be monitoring local traffic patterns in order to optimize for best results, but the question among locals still remains after many long months of patience: “What the **** is up with the traffic lights at the Spearfish Wal-Mart Exit???”

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Despite the fact that Spearfish doesn’t have enough money to clear snow, the Meier land purchase appears to be a wise idea. 

Developers have been salivating over the land for decades, but thankfully the city will have first opportunity to buy and develop it into an oasis of community learning and enjoyment – not too far from the community Rec Center. If done properly, it could really be an amazingly attractive area of the city.

This will take a bit of time and there will be snags along the way, but in the long run the wisdom in this move will become evident.

 
It’s a beautiful piece of land. Hopefully they don’t ruin it by using the same design sense they employed when designing the Rec Center facade. blech.

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