Grumpy old man

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When Ron Acciavatti built his house 58 years ago on the corner of Black Road and McNabb Street, he was lucky to have five cars drive by in a day. Black Road was once single lane and gravel.

Last week, he posted a homemade sign to curb unwanted traffic in the area. His sign, across the road from Finn Hill where the yield is, reads, “You ####### slow down I live here.”

“McNabb isn’t designed as a traffic route,” said Acciavatti Thursday, “I’ve got all kinds of tractor trailer units coming around that corner there like it’s a speedway, at 70 or 80 km/h.
A sign to slow down

“They’re going through here like a shot out of hell,” he said.

Acciavatti told The Sault Star that trucks are using the section of McNabb Street between Black Road and Wellington Street as a shortcut to miss two sets of traffic lights. He said that many people run the red light altogether.

“About once a week, there is a rear end collision,” said Acciavatti, who has been at the busy corner location since he was 23.