Improvements are underway for Lovers Lane in Kalamazoo after an elementary school crossing guard was hit by a car .
“When we hear about something happening, we like to take action,” said city traffic engineer Dennis Randolph.
Kalamazoo increasing safety measures along Lovers Lane
With Milwood Elementary School sitting on Lovers Lane, Randolph says the speeding has to stop. “They need to slow down not only because there’s a sign there but because there’s a school here full of kids. And we want to protect them.”
He says the city is doing their best to make sure no one else gets hurt.
“What is really different at this point is the bollards that we’ve placed by the crosswalk to mark the place where the crossing is,” he said. “We’re going to put bigger speed signs, bigger school signs, plus we’re going to put them on both sides of the street.”
He added that a continental crossing is coming along with speed radar signs. Those have been ordered and should be installed later in the year.