LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) — Drivers cutting through a southern Indiana neighborhood are causing safety concerns for those who live there after a child was hit while riding a scooter.
Neighbors on Gardner Boulevard in Jeffersonville say they're seeing drivers fly through their quiet neighborhood, prompting a petition and city council involvement.
"It's scary to even check the mail," said Danielle Romanic.
Romanic and Tamyra Reilly are two of several residents frustrated with people cutting through their neighborhood to avoid the busy intersection at Holmans Lane and 10th Street.
"We just want the neighborhood to feel like a neighborhood again and not a highway," Reilly said. "We want to walk through our neighborhood. We want to walk our children and our pets through our neighborhood without fear of being hit."
Video taken by Reilly shows several cars from different directions not coming to a complete stop, major traffic backups and drivers going well over the 25 mph speed limit. Neighbors went to police, asking for extra patrols in the area. They say those patrols have helped to some extent.
"They're right there at the stop sign and people will still just blow through it like the stop sign is optional," neighbor Tommy Ogburn said.
Reilly said a child got hit by a car while riding his scooter on Gardner Boulevard two weeks ago. While the child wasn't severely injured and the driver stayed at the scene, that's when Reilly decided there needed to be urgent changes and started a petition.
"We're asking for some basic traffic calming measures to be in place," she said. "Speed feedback signs, possibly some design changes that would slow or completely stop cut-through traffic."
Jeffersonville Councilman Evan Stoner said he backs the petition and is working with other city officials to address the neighborhood's concerns and create a strategic plan to manage Jeffersonville's rapid growth.
"I am strongly urging the administration to take swift action to address immediate concerns in the area," Stoner said, in part. "More broadly, we must work diligently to create a strategic traffic plan that takes an innovative approach to managing Jeffersonville's rapid growth of the past decade plus."
Since November, Stoner said the Jeffersonville Police Department has conducted more than 110 traffic stops in the area for speeding, ignoring stop signs and other traffic violations.
"You wouldn't want me driving through your neighborhood like that, but for some reason people just think they can drive however they want to around this street," said Ogburn.
Neighbors say they just want people to slow down and follow the rules.
"Drive through here like you would drive in front of your own home," Ogburn said.
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