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Get There When You Get There

I’d like to address the way that people speed down our street going 40 to 60 miles per hour. Forbes Place is not a speedway; this is not an on-ramp for the highway, and it’s not a place to be showing off how fast your dumb car can go.

This is a residential street where people of all ages live—young children, teens, adults, elders, dogs, cats, etc.—yet every day, people speed down our street despite signs that say the speed limit is 25 miles per hour and there are signs that say “Children Playing.” You’d quickly call the cops on your own street if someone was flying down your street, yet on our street it’s so commonplace we’d be calling every five minutes.

It’s not a race. Drivers will get there when they get there. I’ve lost count of the times people have given me death glares and beeped their horns at me as I’m just driving to pull into my own driveway! Yes, I’m going to slow down to safely enter my driveway, just like any other resident on any other street. Cars shouldn’t go by me on my left into oncoming traffic or try to go around me and smash into a parked car. Just wait, it only takes a few seconds.

I’ve seen a few police trying to set up traps, but they never work because they’re always in plain view. I’d be glad to let them use my driveway to keep them better hidden on their lookouts! Drivers should please slow down. We just had another accident on this street, another common occurrence.

So this is my question to the town: Could we get a speedbump? Maybe a few lost mufflers would cause people to slow down.

Shannon Ryan

East Haven