Dear law enforcement., please enforce traffic laws. Dear taxpayers, please ask for more law enforcement officers.

This has been an issue that goes unaddressed for years now. What will it take; an accident, a child getting hurt, a fatality? C'mon now, lets get this addressed!

How would you have them "fix it"? Port Ewen doesn't have its own Police Department, so is your position that the County should dedicate one of its Sheriff's patrol vehicles to just spend a shift watching for someone to run the stop sign?

Doesn't seem like the most productive use of limited government resources.

I'm sympathetic to your concerns, but at the end of the day, there's only so much law enforcement can do without materially impacting their ability to handle much more prevalent problems.

Derek,
Yes, a shift or two well spent, or would you have them out at the mall or running up and down 32 somewhere "more important"?
The county did just that years ago in Port Ewen at Bayard and Lampman. It only takes a shift or two for folks to see the police presence and become more cautious (of getting a ticket).
What else are the sheriff patrols doing? What's more important than our kids? This corner is a school bus stop after all. If something urgent comes across - well, that's why they have radios and cars in the first place. This intersection is one block away from 9W and two away from the substation at town hall.

I would suggest that every time you see people running the stop sign to take down their license plate # and make/model of car. Then, report it to the Sheriff you have a right as a citizen to do this. The ones doing it are most likely repeat offenders anyway. The police will contact these offenders, if they know they are being watched they are less likely to break the law.

Well said, CraigJ. Isn't this a residential area? Is this the same area the post office is located? It stands to reason that your own neighbors are the culprits. They do need to be "stopped". The sheriff does need to post someone there. That is what they are supposed to do, serve and protect.

There's only one way to fix this problem. There is no need for a 4 way stop sign, one of the streets should be a thru street like most real towns and cities have.
Kingston is an example of police dept out of control. There is a stop sign on nearly every corner at each intersection. Now what's up with that? OH bye the way if you're so interested in protecting children ask the police to enforce the cell phone law. That is far more dangerous to children and other drivers

Traffic cameras. Plain and simple. Relatively inexpensive and a great source of revenue. They should have these all over Ulster County. People here have NO idea about traffic laws. They drive like a-holes.

Traffic cameras? Are you serious? Have you seen the statistics on traffic-cameras where they show an INCREASE in traffic incidents wherever they're deployed?

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