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By Jeff Deminski May 19, 2017 12:38 PM
Yesterday, a bill made it out of an Assembly committee which could be a cash cow for a lot of towns. Part of a package of bills called “Antwan’s Law,” it would allow towns to establish permanent lower speed limits near schools. Right now you have school zones during certain times when schools are in session. Another part of this package triples the fine you pay. Interesting.
“Antwan’s Law” is named for Antwan Timbers Jr., a 17-year-old high school student who was struck and killed while walking on Route 130 in Burlington City last year. Sounds like the law makes sense, right? A student walking home at the end of his school day gets hit because some jerk is speeding, and it shouldn’t be allowed.
What if I told you Antwan was tragically killed at around midnight, not when school let out, and by a drunk driver? The school was closed. Empty. An equally tragic story, yes. But he wasn’t walking home from school. He was walking with a friend near a Wawa that happened to be near the school.
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Ummm…Waldwick PD wrote the book on how to raise money this way….
Lets just make drunk driving illegal.
Problem solved.
true 3;43, they use to sit on rt 17, but that turned out to be very deadly for a cop. town cop’s should not be on any state hi way’s. that’s the state’s job. if we have a cop on 17 for a few hr’s doing pull over’s , they are not on ridgewood’s roads.
RIGHT
Cha-Ching…. this is surely to pay for the excessive number of cops in NJ…. double whammy for motorists because insurance rates are driven up by speeding offenses. All to pay for 70% more cops per capital than the national average according to the FBI. The state and municipalities are being run for the unions and their members, and here’s yet another example. It has nothing to do with school safety; the kid the law is named after wasn’t walking home from school when he was tragically hit.
Emerson is another town that relies heavily on the ticket revenue…go slow on Forest Ave or they will come flying after you…..
Midland Park policr very active these days on Godwin right around Legends.
And the song plays on…and nobody cares. The unions are completely out of control and initiatives like this under the guise of ” protecting the children” is just another sucker punchline that you fall for simply in the name of generating revenue. The town of waldwick didn’t give a rats ass and sent a revenue agent to park on a dark highway at night with no lights on. For what? And now this for a 17 year old walking on a highway. Talk about taking advantage simply to fords your agenda….disgrace.