Gloria English chokes up when she talks about her beautiful 20 year-old son Josh who was killed on a dangerous stretch of Highway 22 seven years ago. "Yes, I care a lot about highway safety," she says, fighting back tears. She does not want other families to suffer the way hers has. Nobody should lose a loved one.

Her heartbreak is one reason she is a staunch supporter of Measure 49. She is concerned that random unplanned developments poised to happen through the loopholes of Measure 37 across the state will make many roads more dangerous.

She sees this first-hand since developers have planned a huge shopping center and 400 homes near the already dangerous road where her son was killed. Gloria worries that this treacherous stretch of blacktop will become even worse as more cars come and go from the shopping center and new houses.

The shopping center and houses will surround Gloria's home near Dallas. She does not see a way that the traffic from the 400 homes and big shopping complex can safely be added to Highway 22 or nearby Highway 223. The developer has made several proposals, but Gloria says they are simply not realistic. "The traffic here goes 55 miles per hour plus. There are dozens of log and commercial trucks, huge gravel trucks. I cannot imagine showing this traffic down," she says.

Although traffic safety is her biggest concern with the reckless development generated by Measure 37, she has other apprehensions too. Gloria worries about paving over Oregon's rich farmland. "It is just beautiful dirt. Why would you develop that? What are we going to do? Buy our celery from China? I think it is totally appropriate to regulate and protect our resources. The soil we grow our food in is a very important resource," she says.

"Measure 49 is a good fix for Measure 37," she says flatly.