Students Call on Council for Safer Streets
Students from the Montclair Cooperative School ask Councilor Robin Schlager at the 2nd Ward Community meeting again to place a four-way stop at the intersection of Forest and Chestnut streets.
Some of Montclair’s youngest called on the council once again for safer streets by placing a four-way stop at a precarious intersection in the 2nd Ward. Jonah Zinn, an eighth-grader at the Montclair Cooperative School, stood up at the 2nd Ward community meeting last night and asked Councilor Robin Schlager to situate an all-way stop at the intersection of Chestnut and Forest streets. “It’s a very high traffic area,” said Jonah Zinn, “and the cars come up the hill and don’t see anything.” Montclair Cooperative School is located practically all around the intersection, with the school on one side and the athletic field on another. The intersection is also at the top of a steep hill on Chestnut Street, at the bottom of which run NJ …
D-Zone
8:24 pm on Friday, February 1, 2013
You have pedestrians, as well as, drivers who are careful. Unfortunately, some pedestrians see a car coming, walk into the roadway and dare the person driving to hit him/her. The pedestrian, made a reckless decision. Four-way stop signs, turn a controlled intersection into an uncontrolled intersection. Who has the right of way? What if there is an accident? Who is at-fault? I seen numerous driver… more ›