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Residents urge action on dangerous Union and Home Street intersection after crossing-guard incident
Summary
Speakers called on the board and township to press county officials to redesign the longstanding dangerous intersection at Union and Home Street, where a crossing guard was recently hit.
Residents urged the Belleville Board of Education and township officials to press county authorities to address a long-standing safety hazard at the intersection of Union and Home Street after a crossing guard was struck.
Why it matters: Speakers told the board the intersection has a decades-long history of collisions near school pick-up zones and urged faster action to prevent more serious injuries or deaths.
Vincent Frantantoni, a resident who has attended local meetings for many years, said the intersection by School No. 3 (Union and Home) has been identified repeatedly as hazardous in township planning materials and county studies. He said previous advocacy by residents helped secure a light at another nearby intersection and asked the board to “hound the county” to get Union and Home redesigned before someone is killed.
Board members and staff said they would follow up. A trustee (commenting from the dais) noted Essex County’s Safe Streets for All (SS4A) grant and a county-led roadway safety study; the trustee said Belleville had low survey participation for the county’s outreach but that Belleville had also applied for its own SS4A-funded safety study. The trustee said county officials, the state and Belleville engineers appeared to be engaged on redesign plans and promised to share survey links and updates with the community.
What the board said: Trustees and the interim superintendent pledged to contact township and county officials to get information about the crossing-guard injury and current engineering proposals and to share follow-up with the public.
Next steps: Board staff said they would reach out to township and county officials for information, and trustees said they would publicize the SS4A materials and community survey so residents can report hazardous locations.
Ending: Residents and board members urged awareness of the SS4A survey and asked the public to report dangerous intersections to county and township officials to support design changes.
