With LSTA gone for now and the township not paying for courtesy busing since the 3 year agreement is up, the BOE is seeking other ways of getting the township to pay. Until now the LSTA charged parents of non public courtesy busing $150 a year and the township paid for public school courtesy busing. A resolution passed last meeting calls for the township to pay for hazardous busing as the town is responsible to provide safe and adequate transportation routes for all its students. In some streets the town pays for and provides crossing guards. The BOE provided a list of 30 streets in Lakewood that are considered hazardous (see list below) and no child may cross those streets.
In a letter to the township the school district asks to meet on the matter. "If possible, the District would like to schedule a meeting to discuss hazardous routes for the upcoming 2019-2020 school year, as soon as possible, as there is a July 10, 2019
Board of Education meeting.The District’s
Transportation Representatives are:
• Ingrid Reitano, Transportation Manager – (732) 364 – 2400, extension 7060
• Abe Krawiec, Transportation Coordinator – (732) 664-0006
List of streets
1. Fourteenth Street (Across Madison)
2. Pine Street
3. Forest Avenue
4. Route 70
5. New Hampshire Avenue
6. Central Avenue
7. Cedarbridge Avenue
8. Kennedy Boulevard (East & West to Teaberry)
9. Route #9 (Madison Avenue & River Avenue)
10. Ridge Avenue (Brook Road over Lanes Mills)
11. County Line Road (West to East including Lanes Mills)
12. Park Avenue (From 2nd Street to County Line Road) – Elementary School Students Only
13. Ocean Avenue/Route #88 (From Lane Mills Road to Route 9)
14. Miller Road
15. Joe Parker Road
16. Cross Street
17. Hope Chapel Road
18. Chestnut Street
19. Squankum Road
20. James Street
21. New Hampshire Avenue
22. Locust Street
23. Washington Avenue
24. Kennedy Boulevard (Between Twin Oaks)
25. Vine Street
26. Clifton Avenue
27. Oak Street
28. Hillside Street
29. Williams Street
30. Prospect Street
I could not find Hillside st. on the map. You can not be talking about Hillside Blvd. in West gate because many kids have to cross that st. to get their bus.
ReplyDeleteIn around 2000 the town said that they are splitting Lakewood into 11 parts and evry year one part will get sidewalks. The first year they put sidewalks on Forest & Clifton after that I don't know what happened I guess they lost the map.
If the state does not consider after school programs as T&E education so be it. The boe and school district can pull all the shenanigans and threats but people can't afford to put bread on their table either. There is no money to keep on raising taxes on poor Lakewood residents.
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