Does anybody care?

I grew up in a small town in Northern New Jersey, about 12 miles west of New York City. We lived on a busy main thoroughfare, frequented by cars, trucks and the #40 bus headed to Penn Station.
I never once felt unsafe while playing outside or walking the family dog. When I left my hometown, I moved first to Hoboken, then to Weehawken. While living in these busy, congested, metropolitan-type cities, I never felt unsafe while walking or riding a bike.
When I retired, I found my dream home in a beautiful little village called Wycombe. It is the stuff dreams are made of. Beautiful, well maintained homes and the most incredible, wonderful and amazing group of neighbors I have ever had the pleasure of meeting and knowing.
It’s been a dream come true … except for the fact that it is the only neighborhood where I have ever lived that I feel incredibly unsafe while walking my dog.
It’s because of the disrespectful, inconsiderate, self-absorbed jerks who speed down our street as if it were their own personal freeway.

It’s an issue. One that has caused all of us living on Township Line Road frustration, stress and anger. We, as a community, have written and complained consistently to everyone from our local board of supervisors, chiefs of police, local and state politicians and even the governor’s office, and nothing has been done.
As I have written many times in my correspondence to anyone who could remotely help us: “Is it going to take one of us, our children or our pets to be killed for you to finally do something about the speeding issues on Township Line Road?’
I’m starting to believe that the answer is no, because it’s become abundantly clear that nobody cares.
Kimberle Adkins, Wycombe

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