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Principal and students urge council to keep Market Street signal and create school safety zone
Summary
Corey Yocom and two seniors from the Academy for Urban Scholars told Youngstown City Council that removing the traffic light at Market Street and Auburndale would endanger students; they asked council to keep the signal and formally designate a school zone with cameras.
Corey Yocom, principal of the Academy for Urban Scholars, told Youngstown City Council on Dec. 17 that the traffic signal at Market Street and Auburndale is critical to student safety and should not be removed. He yielded his time to two graduating seniors who described repeated near-misses and at least one collision in front of the school.
The students said drivers frequently run red and yellow lights and fail to yield to pedestrians. "Removing the traffic light would…
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