Residents “don’t imply to be a brat,” however need semi vans to cease endangering neighborhood college bus cease

Residents of a neighborhood in Northern Kentucky say they’re apprehensive in regards to the security of their youngsters and neighbors as semi vans attempt to entry close by warehouses by chopping via their streets. 

Residents of the Cherry Hill subdivision in Erlanger say that an space of specific concern is a utility pole on Queensway Drive and Peachtree Lane behind St. Henry Excessive College, proper close to a college bus cease. The neighborhood says semi vans knock over the utility pole continuously, and the pole was most just lately changed on Monday, December fifth. This marks the third time the pole has been knocked over in 4 months. 

The visitors stems from vans trying to entry the brand new warehouses constructed on the previous Showcase Cinemas property, all whereas ignoring indicators prohibiting semi vans within the neighborhood, reported Fox 19.

“They don’t have to be coming down right here in any respect down these streets,” stated resident Rebecca Bennett, whose youngsters wait on the bus cease. “I don’t imply to be a brat about the place my youngsters get on the varsity bus, however I would like them to be secure.”

Bennett says her twins have been standing on the bus cease on Monday simply 5 minutes earlier than the utility pole was struck, they usually may have been severely harm within the incident. 

“If the bus wouldn’t have come, they’d have been hit, as a result of they wouldn’t have been paying consideration,” she stated. “He would’ve come across the nook, and the traces would have gone down proper on prime of them.”

”I work at home, so if I don’t have web, if I don’t have electrical energy, I can’t work. And so, I’ve misplaced hours due to this,” she added. 

“We don’t prefer it, as a result of I’m a senior,” stated Patricia Hisle, one other resident. “My neighbors are seniors. And now, we’ve got no warmth, and it’s chilly in the home, and it’s very upsetting.”

Erlander police say that the town has tried to contact GPS companies that route vans via the neighborhood, and that the Boone County Govt Decide has been in touch with state officers to place up extra indicators, however nothing has been finished but. 

For now, residents have been taking issues into their very own arms once they can. 

“The neighbors have been out they usually made them [the truck driver] again up all the way in which,” Hisle recalled.