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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Here's the thing people aren't understanding.

#1 Traffic studies are expensive.

#2 You can't just add an arrow at Gainsborough and Tuckerman without changing the timing on the light which then impacts all of the traffic along Tuckerman, Falls, Seven Locks etc... all carriers of massive amounts of traffic during that same time period.

#3 Given #1 and #2 the traffic study would likely be more extensive and expensive than just this one intersection.

#4 Given all of the above and the variety of needs in our county I don't know how anyone could justify this expense just to shave 5 minutes off of the 15 minute experience of this small subset of citizens. [/quote]

Here's what you aren't understanding, the traffic study is needed for safety.  The current situation is only a matter of time till a student is injured or killed.[/quote]

That's right. Won't someone think of the children. This is all easily solved if the adults will all just be patient and wait their turns. If parents would stop dropping their kids off in the middle of the street. Why don't some of you volunteer to help direct and manage traffic? Or put your kid on the bus - drops them right at the door. [/quote]

Kids can live 1-1/2 miles away and not get a bus. When they have a heavy backpack and a musical instrument, it's hard to walk, and it's worse in the rain. Sounds like you haven't been there in the morning. Maybe a traffic study at Gainsborough and Tuckerman would be helpful, but much of this is a new problem created by the new principal.  Adults aren't dropping kids off in the middle of the street in front of the school. Adults are in cars that aren't moving at all because the principal wouldn't use traffic engineering resources available to her for free.

At the beginning of the school year, the children were encouraged to stay on the sidewalks. Then, the principal came up with the less-than-brilliant idea that it would be better to keep them off the sidewalk and have them walk through the parking lots. The principal, not the parents, created this mess. I hope no child gets injured, but if they do, the principal is 100% to blame for putting kids in that situation. [/quote]

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