Mission/Big Oak intersection dangerous

Juliana Tipton, who lives on Big Oak Drive, is a lady with a cause. She turned 83 years old on May 12, but that milestone didn’t diminish her fight for a turn lane at South Mission and Big Oak Ranch Roads. She’s been at this since 1997.

It’s no question the intersection is dangerous. Nineteen of her neighbors on that street have been hit trying to enter or exit their quiet county lane off busy South Mission.

Tipton herself was a victim on February 9, 1989; a hit and run “that took the whole side of my car off;” a car that she had purchased only two days before.

Tipton and her husband settled o...