Has Mr. Elliot Newman, who touts how great the new road diet arrangement will be (in your article), ever driven Island Crest Way during school drop-off or pick-up times when traffic now backs up? The new “unintended consequences” of unsafe conditions that I predict with the new road diet arrangements will come from cars trying to turn left either direction onto Island Crest Way when the traffic is solid, two lanes in both directions. This is why the four lanes that are there now were put in in the first place! Your online poll shows 81 percent against the start of construction — does this reach MI City Council members? Do they care?

Ron White