EDITOR:

Can anyone look at the accompanying photo and tell me the state Department of Transportation doesn't have its priorities skewed?

In a period of just a few weeks, DOT has uglified U.S. 1 with its creepy-looking camera poles every few miles, yet the sign with flasher in the accompanying photo, which warns motorists that the Sugarloaf Key firehouse is just ahead, has been lying by the roadside since being blown down by a hurricane in 2005, or maybe even in 2004 - I can't remember which hurricane or which year. But this emergency-vehicle warning sign has been out of action for a long time.

DOT needs to get its priorities straight.

Dennis Henize

Cudjoe Key