A group of parents from Port Moody’s Seaview neighbourhood is hoping city council heeds their plea for better signage to control speeders and stop sign runners before it’s too late.
Pete Le Voguer, who was scheduled to lead a group of about a half dozen neighbours at Tuesday's Port Moody council meeting, said there have been too many close calls at the four-way stop at Cecile and Angela drives, near Seaview elementary school.
Le Voguer said drivers rushing to drop their kids at the school and commuters hurrying their way out of the residential area to Clarke Road routinely ignore the stop signs and the 30 km/h speed limit.
And while Port Moody Police officers occasionally conduct an enforcement blitz along one of only two routes in and out of the neighbourhood, he said more needs to be done to get the attention of motorists. He suggested blinking crosswalk lights to alert drivers of the pedestrian crossings might be a start.
“Just trying to cross, you take your life into your hands,” Le Voguer told The Tri-City News.
Joss Widjaya saw that first-hand when one of her eight-year-old triplets was almost struck in the crosswalk in his first week of classes at Seaview elementary.
“They want to walk to school by themselves but it’s a safety hazard,” Widjaya said.
Le Voguer said the intersection has been a problem for the six years he has lived in the neighbourhood, which is a mix of single-family homes and rental townhouses. He said with only two routes connecting to the arterial Clarke Road, a lot of traffic funnels along Cecile and Angela drives.
“People just use it as their own personal speedway,” he said.
