Ridge High School's Traffic Solution a District Priority
Bernards Board of Education begins discussing this school year's goals, including solving the high school traffic problem that hasn't gone away.
New Schools Superintendent Nick Markarian and other Board of Education members began ticking off a tentitive list of goals for the 2012-13 school year — and along with consideration of additional Advanced Placement courses and generating revenue for the district, the goal that's been front and center for almost nine months is dealing with Ridge High School's traffic problem. If school officials had any doubts, three homeowners who live along South Finley Avenue near the main entrance to the high school at 268 S. Finley Ave. showed up at Monday's meeting to protest the school district's current preferred solution. Markarian said the township's traffic consultant already has asked Somerset County to add a left-turn lane on South Finley that …
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Eileen W
2:27 pm on Friday, September 14, 2012
I used to agree, but am now less convinced. I don’t see why Ridge High Administration hasn’t measured “travel time” (how long it takes to drive through the campus from point of entry to either exit/parking); taken steps within its control (e.g., a limited “blackout” period, extending dropoff points to include the area in front of the gym and ensuring that dropoff consistently extends to the … more ›