Queens lawmakers announce traffi c safety
signs to be installed at College Point schools
TIMESLEDGER | QNS.COM | NOV. 19 - NOV. 25, 2021 9
BY CARLOTTA MOHAMED
The city Department of Transportation
(DOT) will be installing traffic
control signs adjacent to three College
Point schools within the next two
weeks following residents’ pleas for
safety measures in the area.
Assemblyman Daniel Rosenthal,
Senator John Liu and Councilman
Paul Vallone were informed earlier
this week of the DOT’s approval for
an all-way stop sign, after urging the
department to install traffic calming
measures for the safety of students
and drivers alike.
The signage will be placed at the
intersections of 124th Street and 14th
Avenue, 126th Street and 23rd Avenue,
and 129th Street and Ninth Avenue,
which are adjacent to M.S. 379,
P.S. 29 and P.S. 129.
Following pleas from concerned
constituents and parents, the lawmakers
penned a joint letter to DOT
last November requesting a traffic
study regarding the feasibility of installing
traffic safety measures near
College Point schools. Given the density
of the schools, tight thoroughfares
and proximity to major traffic
corridors, parents, residents and
school administrators had long called
for safety measures.
Rosenthal thanked Liu and Vallone
for their collaboration, which
he said will benefit the entire College
Point community.
“I am happy to learn the Department
of Transportation has heeded
the pleas from the concerned parents,”
Rosenthal said. “These traffic
safety measures will help ensure
children arrive and depart safely
from their school day while also providing
an extra element of driver
safety.”
Keeping children safe is the highest
responsibility of the government,
Liu said.
“These stop signs will go a long
way towards keeping kids safe as they
go to and from their school. Thanks to
DOT, Assembly member Rosenthal,
and Councilman Vallone for their efforts
in getting this done,” Liu said.
According to Vallone, safety for
the community’s schools has been a
top priority over the last eight years.
“College Point schools will now
have additional traffic calming and
controlling devices to help prevent
reckless driving in their vicinity and
make both families and faculty feel
safer as they make their way to class
every day,” Vallone said.
Reach reporter Carlotta Mohamed
by e-mail at cmohamed@schnepsmedia.
com or by phone at (718) 260–4526.
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