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Residents press council on speeding, stop-sign enforcement and aging water mains; council pledges follow-up
Summary
During public comment, residents urged enforcement of stop signs and speed control on neighborhood side streets and asked about assessment of the borough’s aging water distribution system. Council members and borough staff said studies and asset-management planning are underway and promised follow-up.
Several residents used the meeting’s public-participation periods to press the borough for action on local traffic safety and on the condition of Highland Park’s water-distribution infrastructure.
Alan Liebman, a North Seventh Avenue resident, described repeated stop-sign noncompliance on side streets and requested more targeted traffic enforcement. “Drivers treat stop signs as yields,” Liebman said, noting motorists routinely ignore stop signs and crosswalks on neighborhood streets used by schoolchildren and pedestrians. He…
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