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Residents press council on school crossing safety, streetlights and light pollution
Summary
During public comment at the March 4 Wayne City Council meeting residents raised safety concerns about traffic at Taft School, reported extended downtown streetlight outages during utility work, and complained that a newly installed LED pole light in a neighborhood causes early-morning glare.
During the March 4 public comment period residents raised three public-works and safety concerns for council attention: unsafe traffic and limited crossing support at Taft School, continuing streetlight outages downtown during utility work, and a neighborhood complaint about a new LED pole light.
Vern Amos of Stellwagen described unsafe conditions at Taft School'particularly at the Forest and Gloria intersection and a site parents use to drop off children. "That intersection at Forest And Gloria on Monday morning and Friday evening is horrible," Amos said, adding that parents often ignore the stop sign and that congestion is worse on bad-weather days. Amos, who identified himself as a crossing guard supervisor, said staff suggested making a parking-lot exit right-turn-only to reduce return traffic through the intersection.
Nancy Pride, a resident on Career Street, reported several downtown and uptown streetlights remain dark after recent utility work and said DTE informed her outages could last "anywhere from 4 to 6 hours." Pride also raised a separate complaint about a newly installed LED fixture on a utility pole in her subdivision that she said floods nearby homes with light and wakes residents at 5:30 a.m.; she described ecological concerns for nocturnal wildlife and harm to neighbors' sleep.
Council members acknowledged the comments. The public-works and police departments will be the appropriate points of follow-up; city staff did not take formal action at the March 4 meeting but community members requested staff look into increased crossing support at Taft School, communicate expected outage windows to residents during utility work, and evaluate the LED light installation for mitigation options.
