Letter to the editor
To the editor:
This is in response to an editorial in The Hightstown Gazette, which said, "During a recent East Windsor Board of Education meeting, a board member from East Windsor suggested to the school administration that the school bus drivers should be warned not to speed on Stockton Street."
My comment to that is simply "Warn the school bus drivers not to speed anywhere in Hightstown. Hightstown’s speed limit is 25 mph!"
I have tailed school buses, tracked their speeding past my home, and watched their reckless driving (I watched as a school bus passed a stopped school bus with the STOP signal extended) and wherever and whenever possible, reported the bus numbers to Connie Swaim and then to the police. I have also had an extended conversation with Mr. David Schafter. I have been advised to tell the police to ticket offenders, and have passed the information to the chief of police.
If that’s the only way to stop the hot-rodders driving school buses, then they will be ticketed. There are more children walking and more pedestrian traffic in general; the drivers of school buses at any time of the day MUST obey the speed limit 25 mph.
Phyllis Deal
Hightstown

