With schools open this month we note many vehicles driving excessively over the posted 25-miles-per-hour speed limit on Southwest 112th Street. This area in question is between 10th Avenue Southwest and 12th Avenue Southwest.

Cascade Middle School and Evergreen High School being in close proximity to Southwest 112th Street, students from these two schools use Southwest 112th as a sidewalk (as this street has no sidewalks) creating a dangerous combination. We noted 73 students using it as a sidewalk in a 45-minute time frame after school periods.

Not only teenage drivers spinning their tires on the asphalt but parents bringing their children to school are not observing the speed limit.

We felt a solution would be a four-way stop sign installed at the intersection on Southwest 112th Street and 11th Avenue Southwest that would slow the heavy traffic before and after school periods and not impede emergency vehicles. However, King County Roads rejected the four-way stop sign because it was a few cars short of the required standard they set.

Being logical needs to be put into the equation. With the lack of traffic enforcement do we have to have a child fatality before this dangerous problem will be resolved?

Dick Thurnau

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