East Meadow and Ross Road Intersection is a Death Trap

The reason that I created the petition to stop the traffic calming “investments” on Ross Road is really because my children feel truly threatened by the changes at the intersection of East Meadow and Ross Road. Two of the other concerned voters that joined me for a meeting with the city councilman were troubled that emergency vehicles (like fire trucks) were no longer able to reach them by the shortest route. My personal objection is that 8-year-old children are forced into the flow of traffic, confronting cars which may or may not see them. Foliage on the corner prevents bike riders from seeing oncoming traffic, and the collective application of three different disruptions (the roundabout, the lane separators, the engorged sidewalks) ensures that bikes are going to be shoved into traffic brusquely and with little visibility into cars coming either way on Ross Road (north or south).