SAN ANTONIO – Tx \u2014 Parents of students at Kitty Hawk Middle School say they want more crossing guards after too many close calls.<\/p>\n
They say traffic is horrible during pickup times and are worried things are going to get worse.<\/p>\n
\u201cPeople roll through the stop signs,\u201d Leah Rand said. \u201cThey don\u2019t come to complete stops. The kids can\u2019t see around the vehicles to know if they are able to cross. The school says they can\u2019t come down here and man the crosswalk. I\u2019m concerned.\u201d<\/p>\n
The speed limit on Old Cimmaron Trail and Granite Mist by the middle school drops from 30 mph to 20 mph before and after school, but parents say some drivers aren\u2019t slowing down.<\/p>\n
Leah Rand, whose granddaughter attends the school, says she\u2019s also seen drivers blocking the crosswalk and texting on their phones while driving. Another parent says he\u2019s had to take safety into his own hands.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere have been times when I\u2019ve been standing here and I\u2019ve had to physically go out into the road and make cars stop because they were going to go while kids were crossing.\u201d<\/p>\n
Fed up with the close calls, the parent says he approached a Judson ISD officer with his concerns.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere were cars blocking the crosswalk. A Judson ISD officer was driving by. We flagged him down and asked if he could do something about it. He said he couldn\u2019t do anything about it because they stopped short. I asked him if a child\u2019s life is important. He said yes, but he couldn\u2019t do anything about it.\u201d<\/p>\n
We reached out to Judson ISD inquiring if a crossing guard can be placed at the corner of Old Cimmaron Trail and Granite Mist. They told us the Judson ISD Police Department has been monitoring the crosswalk to determine whether any safety measures or improvements are needed.<\/p>\n
Judson ISD then sent an email to the parents who raised concerns about the traffic saying they deployed a drone to observe traffic patterns to map out possible improvements.<\/p>\n
The Universal Police Department also observed the crosswalk and said they agree there are traffic concerns and are working to find a solution.<\/p>\n
But there is still no word on whether or not a crossing guard will be provided.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SAN ANTONIO – Tx \u2014 Parents of students at Kitty Hawk Middle School say they want more crossing…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":443667,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[82,84,83],"class_list":["post-443666","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-antonio","tag-san-antonio","tag-san-antonio-headlines","tag-san-antonio-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443666","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=443666"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443666\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/443667"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=443666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=443666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=443666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}