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Motorists: Slow down
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EDITOR:
I am a resident of Youngstown, living on Shirley Road on the South Side. As with any heavily traveled road, we have a situation with speeders on our street and unfortunately summer brings more of them.
To the person driving down Shirley Road in the middle of the afternoon last Wednesday, who saw the need to go around the car in front of him and continue speeding down the street and was told by me to slow down and you felt the need to give me the finger as if I had done something wrong, I ask you, did you see my 2-year-old son playing in his driveway? Were there other children playing in the neighborhood? What about small animals? Or were you really going too fast down the road to notice?
I have been living on this street for five years and have seen my share of accidents. Three times I have seen animals get hit by cars, right in front of my home. Once the animal died from her injuries. There was only one time that someone had the presence of mind to stop and inquire about the animal.
I have called the Youngstown Police Department after each incident to ask them to install some kind of radar to deter cars, but unfortunately there is more serious crime happening and they just can’t spare the manpower. So I ask this of the “gentleman” from Wednesday and every car that travels on Shirley Road: Would you rather be a few minutes late to your next appointment and know that you brought no harm to children or just become another statistic?
MELISSA CARNAHAN
Youngstown
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Whenever my husband is outside you can always hear him yelling at passing cars to "slow down". We live on Howard St. in Youngstown and since it runs parallel to Market from Midlothian to Pinehurst people see it as a quick short cut (and I do mean quick). We also have a young child and it terrifies us to see people going fast down the street. Many motorists have flipped off my husband or even slowed down to give him a dirty look but not one will stop to say anything in person. We have tried a few avenues for getting a stop sign on the street but have hit a dead end. The person we talked to said there need to be an engineering study and many other test to find out if one is necessary, and of course it all boils down to $$$ (or lack there of). I just wonder how fast a stop sign would go up if some one gets hit (god forbid). Until something is done my husband will continue to shout and hope that some one will listen before it is too late.
Hey Melissa,
Below is a link to a story out of Durham, NC. The local residents were fed up with speeders in their neighborhood, I like the concept.
http://www.wral.com/news/local/story/...
Regards,
PS