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I’m Melissa Wright near 30th and Tucker where neighbors are contacting city and state officials, asking for a solution to the speeding in the area.
I was told that a traffic light at this intersection is unwarranted… however… business owners in this are believe some sort of additional traffic calming could be safer.
Neighbors here want to see something change after watching a car fly into the playground of this daycare center. In fact, i had interviewed Jacque Casey about traffic safety on 30th street just a week before this crash.
“It’s time to stop talking, it’s time to get something done…when we talked about the other day, its almost pathetic how we said its not if but when it was two weeks prior on one of the interview you had done,” said Casey.
Casey says for years, she’s asked officials to make her neighborhood safe by adding street lights at this intersection.
Paulette Genthon, who owns the Universial College of Healing Arts, down the street from the daycare says since the crash she’s began reaching back out to officials as well.