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Residents urge Greer council to fix dangerous traffic near Bond Career Center
Summary
Multiple residents told the council that traffic from Bond Career Center is endangering neighborhood streets, citing video evidence, high speeds, repeated stop-sign running and requests for speed humps or rerouting to Main Street (Highway 14). No formal policy change was adopted at the meeting.
Several residents called on the council to address what they described as persistent, unsafe traffic around the Bond Career Center.
Eddie Burch, who gave his address as 116 Vandevanter Drive, said a video the neighborhood shared with council shows ‘‘the indisputable disregard for traffic laws’’ and described repeated stop-sign violations at Cunningham Drive and Vandevanter. "This is not a situation where something bad might happen. This is a situation where, obviously, there's going to be a serious accident," he told the council.
Mark Buff, a neighbor at 202 Van De Venter, said he has documented "73 cases of erratic vehicle behavior since November," including vehicles traveling "15 to 30 miles per hour over the posted 25 miles an hour speed limit," multiple cars passing and racing, and heavy traffic during the Bond Center's staggered session times. He said the Bond Center has instructed students to exit onto Vandeventer and Cunningham and asked that the center route traffic to Highway 14/Main Street instead.
Council members noted steps the city has already taken — a larger stop sign, an SRO stationed during dismissal last year, and a speed-reading display sign installed on Vandeventer — but residents said those measures are temporary and have not solved loading-time congestion or speeding. Residents requested permanent traffic-calming measures such as speed humps, enforcement during arrival and dismissal windows, and evaluating whether routing could be shifted away from neighborhood streets.
The council did not vote on an ordinance or approve immediate capital work at the meeting; staff and council members asked that city staff review the petitions, the recorded video, speed-hump policy criteria and routing options and report back.
