Your March 7 editorial, "Take Look at Trouble Spots," was right on point. It is not only unnecessary, it is terribly wrong, to wait for a serious injury or a fatality before dealing with intersections that have long been recognized as clearly dangerous.
One East Brunswick intersection that requires quick installation of a traffic light is Ryders Lane and Peach Orchard Drive. The intersection takes much turning traffic from Peach Orchard Drive, frequently backed up, onto Ryders Lane. It is about halfway between the traffic lights at Milltown Road and Dunhams Corner Road. Just as Ryders Lane traffic abates in one direction, it comes in the other. Moreover, there are also pedestrians going and coming from St. Bartholomew’s Roman Catholic Church, the East Brunswick Jewish Center, Memorial School and playgrounds.
In the early 1990s, as part of the consideration for the building of Home Depot, an agreement was reached that a traffic light would be installed at the Ryders/Peach Orchard intersection. For one reason or another, it has been scheduled and then postponed by the county from year to year. It is once again scheduled for this year.
Our township leaders should make every effort to ensure that the county road department finally fulfills its obligation without more delay and before an accident that is more serious than those that have already occurred.
Robert L. Stone
East Brunswick