Just What Cedar Crest Blvd. Needs

'The Morning Call' is reporting developers want to build a 20,000 square foot medical building on the 'Kuss Brothers' plant nursery property near Hamilton on Cedar Crest Boulevard. Anyone who's unfortunate enough to live along there or who are required to take this route home or for work can tell what a mess it is already. There's not a doubt in my mind this will happen eventually one way or the other.

I'm all too happy to have had a opportunity to live in the Lehigh Valley long before what it has now become. One gigantic ant colony. There once was a time you could take a Sunday drive when few were out on the roads w/o someone crawling up your behind. When I first starting working near Fogelsville it took me 10 minutes to get home. By the time I retired it took me forty five minutes on a good day. Some may call this progress. That's not the way I see it. In my eyes over development and over population has derogated everything that made this area a once great place to live and raise a family.

This area of Cedar Crest Blvd. (both north & south) once was without countless shopping centers and medical buildings end to end. Practically the only things on either corners of both Tilghman & Hamilton were suburban golf driving ranges. About the only other things along Cedar Crest either side of Hamilton were corn fields, a horse riding stable and few other things.

I know nothing can ever be as they were, but it's a shame today's young commuters and families will never ever again have the opportunity to experience the quality of life that once existed here in the Lehigh Valley.