On the morning of Wednesday, September 25, 2019, Johnnie Beck was on his way to the Depot, just like he had been doing for the last 35 years. Tragically, Beck didn’t make it to work that morning, and will never make it to work again, because of a dangerous intersection that has plagued the people of Bowie County for a long time.

Beck was on his motorcycle that morning. That motorcycle is now a crumpled and tangled pile of metal after it ran into the side of a car that was trying to get into the...