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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]He was hit on Nebraska during school drop off and left in an ambulance. There have been a ton of accidents at that crazy intersection of Nebraska/Davenport/Fort Drive. Drivers are constantly speeding, texting, turning, honking, running the light, dropping kids off anywhere and everywhere, blocking traffic, etc. There only two crossing guards to oversee five crosswalks, not to mention a blind spot because there's a hill at that part of Nebraska. The whole clusterf--- needs to be redesigned. [/quote]

If you think about it over 1000 kids a day make it to and from Deal generally safely each day.  I am not sure if a redesign is in order or if there needs to be some traffic calming devices in place.  A large part of the problem are the parents who drop kids at random locations.  We live right by Deal and the amount of crazy driving by the Deal parents is ridiculous.  Yes the pulling a Uturn instead of driving around the loop is truly the laziest of behaviors but I have watched parents drop their kids off from the left lane of Nebraska while there was a green light!  They just couldn't get over so they just stop and let the kids out in the middle of traffic!  I wish the school would put someone out front to stop the Uturns and to talk to parents about safe driving -- not that it would do any good.....[/quote]

Complain Complain Complain. To the city, not to the school. My son is at a charter school and the traffic complaints became so frequent that there is now at least one police officer parked out front during both drop off and pick up with their lights flashing. There's still congestion, but people are less likely to pull the same crap they did before.[/quote]

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