YORBA LINDA : School Parents Call Again for Stop Sign
Parents of Fairmont Private School students are once again calling on the city to place a stop sign on Valley View Avenue, nearly a year after a motorist struck and killed one child and seriously injured two others.
The parents and several school administrators will press the City Council at a meeting today for a stop sign at Valley View and Orange Street. The group also will urge that a crosswalk be installed to connect the school and a park across the street.
“Something needs to be done,” said Steven F. Behrens, who has two children at the school and is leading the call for a stop sign and other traffic controls. “We can’t sit by and watch another tragedy occur.”
City officials say that the street does not warrant a stop sign or traffic signal, based on engineering studies of traffic volume and the contour of the street.
Officials also have said that some traffic controls, particularly mid-block crosswalks, can create a more dangerous situation because motorists do not expect them.
But Behrens said the tragedy last year should be proof enough that the street is dangerous.
The school, which has 165 preschool to third-grade students, no longer allows classes to cross the street to the park.
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