agree! It seems to be confusing for all as to who can turn first.

This has been especially bad lately with the JFK bridge detour sending extra cars onto North Passaic!

I agree. That intersection is a mess, especially when cars come up snake hill to turn left on Fairmount and there are cars waiting to turn left from Southern Blvd. on to Fairmount heading toward Main St.

Why, in heaven's name, do you need a radar gun, and is it even legal for you to use one? Yes, there are drivers who speed, and even more who have no clue what they are about. How is your use of a radar gun going to change that?

Brian, Yes it is completely legal for a civilian to use a radar gun. The results will not stand up in court as evidence, but they can be used to track and trend the excess speed traveled. I purchased a radar gun so I could provide the township with specific statistics on the excess speed traveled in front of my home. You should come by sometime and try exiting any of the driveways in my area and see how close you come to being T-Boned. If drivers do 35MPH, there is no issue, but they don't. they speed in excess of 50 or 55MPH.My neighbors all agree and they wish more could be done. We have a fine police department, but they can't be everywhere. Just this morning, a motorist was traveling on Passaic Street from New Providence and could not wait to make a legal left onto River Road. The female driver, in a silver Jeep Cherokee, turned onto the entry way from River Road to Passaic Street in the lane of oncoming vehicles and then eventually moved over into the right lane of River Road. It is absolutely insane. I think I will install cameras next and publish the videos in high definition on youtube so the world can get a close look at the yahoos who drive so recklessly. What's the worst that could happen? Drivers will slow down and residents will be safer.

Okay, John, I stand corrected. It sounds like your use of the radar is a good way of gathering hard data, rather than mere impressions, as a basis for public policy decisions. Good job.
I do agree that there seems to be a feeling among many motorists that "I have the right of way no matter what", which is part of what creates many of our traffic problems. I also think that many of our roads have not kept up with the surge in population over the past 40 or 50 years. The roads are often too narrow, with too many blind spots, and no where to go when there is a problem.

Here we go again with the hack web site. What does a stockade fence have to due with bikers and pedestrians? I have seen the location of this fence and it appears to be in a straight line, does not create a bind spot and is located on a downhill slope away from the edge of the road surface. Bikers and pedestrians would not be able to utilize this side of the road (due to the lack of a shoulder) even if the fence was not there. Do us all a favor and keep the argument you are having with your neighbors (which is why the fence was put up, because of you!) off of posts that have nothing to do with the fact that you didn’t get what you wanted. The people posting on this topic have legitimate concerns and don’t need to have them over shadowed by your lies and accusations about the Township and the Market Garden Ordinance. (Sorry everyone, I just had to point this out!)

Ok genius, tell me how the fence is an obstruction if you are coming west on Green Village Rd, over the bridge. The fence isn't even close to the bridge and it is located on the left side of the road. Not to mention if the road bends at all it is to the right. Once again you are a lier...your site "savegreenvillage.com" was not to inform the public of the history of Green Village. It was developed in protest of farming and your neighbors. And to think you want to be on the Township Committee...you do know you will have to start telling the truth and stop making wildly false accusations.

Again you are a liar. Your hack site has no other content. The fence was not removed because of the safety of bikers or pedestrians but because of a County set back. By the looks of your site and the videos/pictures posted of their property, I can see why they would want a privacy fence. The video you post of the biker shows nothing. If anything they would be obstructed by the split rail fence rather then the stockade fence. If you are going to keep up with this “sour grapes”, then please make your comments elsewhere.

Thank you, Mr. Rutter for the opportunity to explain how I obtained my accident statistics.The Safe Routes to School Committee is working with the N.J. Dept. of Transportation (NJDOT) to assess & create safer ways for our children to walk and bike to school. NJDOT is also helping Chatham apply for a grant to hopefully receive outside funds to make this happen. As part of the grant, we are required to submit "crash data" within our three schools' .75 mile radii during active commute time. Therefore, in Nov. of '11, I researched pertinent accident data during the last two school years (2009-2010 and 2010-2011) up to that present time. I will be presenting the Township Committee with accident data for this third school year now that it is over. I appreciate the suggestion to break down the data by school year and will do so. the breakdown for each of the two completed schools years is 27 accidents for '09-10 and 28 for '10-'11 school year (there were 6 accidents for the incomplete 3rd year). Each school year contains 180 days. As I reported, these accidents occurred during 15% and 15.6% of the morning and afternoon active school commute time periods within the prescribed radii for those two school years, respectively. You broke down my data by month: There are an average of 21.4 weekdays per month in a 10 month school year, incl. holidays.

This conservatively means that there were 2.7 and 2.8 accident per month, or more than one every other week, while children were walking or biking to school at the same time in the same radius. I only used those weekdays in which school was in session, not counting school holidays and summer break nor days off due to inclement weather during school commuting times of 7:15-8:55 AM and 2:05-3:25 PM (11:45-12:55PM for half days)within the .75 radii of the 3 schools. I did not include accidents occurring during the additional times when children are going to or from school: midday kindergarten drop off/pick up, after school at a later time from Work-Family, sporting activities, enrichment programs, high schoolers leaving at 1:40 due to study hall, or other times of the day when seniors are coming and going at open campus. Keep in mind that there are many additional accidents in this radius each month at different time periods outside these school commuting times in which our citizens walk and bike, I omitted those. None of the accidents I reported include a truck striking an overpass, that overpass if outside of the .75 mile radius of my research. Lastly, while I have personal knowledge of a biking child being struck by a car in just 1 of these accidents, to my knowledge, the rest of the accidents did not injure other peds. or cyclists, although I and other walkers have gotten out of the way just in time in some cases. Accident reports do not tell us how many "almost"

hit a ped. nor the causes of those accidents. We are also researching exactly where children are having to walk or bike in the street with autos due to lack of alternative off-road throughways. I agree we need to use any funds we receive carefully to target key high priority areas for increased walker safety, starting with our children's need to travel to school. This accident data is 1 part of an overall assessment which will help us objectively improve in this important endeavor with support from NJDOT, citizens, and local leaders.