East Penn School District

Safety Commission Calls Willow Lane Traffic 'Horrendous'

Parents of Willow Lane Elementary students want to know what the township can do to keep their children safe if they must walk to school in the fall.

After a meeting at the school and addressing the East Penn School Board twice, several parents of children who attend Willow Lane Elementary School addressed Lower Macungie Township's Public Safety Commission. And an ad hoc member of the commission flat out said the Willow and Sauerkraut lanes intersection is unsafe for children to be walking. Susan Coenen, a parent and resident of Brookside Farms, asked the commissioners at the Tuesday meeting what they planned to do for the children who are supposed to begin walking to school in the fall. The East Penn School District, claiming Willow Lane was designed as a "walking school," had been busing all students since the school opened in fall 2010. But in an effort to save $65,000 in the 2013 …

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ted.dobracki

2:53 pm on Sunday, December 23, 2012

@ron - whatever LMT does about establishing its own locally controlled police force is about 35-40 years too late.   more ›

Tempers Flare With Discussion of Dangerous Intersection

However, Lower Macungie commissioners and parents agree the June 3 pedestrian accident sparks interest in improving crossroads around Willow Lane Elementary School.

Though about 50 concerned parents and residents waited patiently to speak at the June 16 meeting of the Lower Macungie Township Board of Commissioners, several left before they could express their opinions because of a lengthy hearing prior to the public comment section of the meeting. Their concerns involved a 6-year-old child who was hit by a car June 3 at the intersection of Willow and Sauerkraut lanes. Many people attended the festival at Willow Lane Elementary School that evening.  Commissioner President Roger Reis immediately agreed that, “Any accident involving a child is a sad event,”  before he proceeded to give an account of the accident: “Anybody who has children knows how fast they are,” Reis continued. “They know how quickly […

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Seth Jones

6:33 pm on Friday, June 24, 2011

Green and Gold East Penn proud! But please add, educating children for a globe economy and forgetting about seniors along with EIT at home.   more ›