Ridgewood Police : The Dangers of Leaves on the Roads
When leaves accumulate on the roadway and become wet, they can get extremely slippery, making the driving conditions similar to driving on ice. If the temperature drops below freezing, the wet leaves will freeze and turn into dangerous icy leaves on the roadway. Besides reducing the car’s traction, causing skidding and the possibility of losing control of the vehicle, leaves often cover the painted road markings, making it difficult to know the locations of the lanes.
• Slow down if you are driving on a road covered with leaves, especially when driving around turns.
• Allow yourself plenty of room to stop in an emergency. Keep a greater distance between you and the car in front of you.
• Leaves make it difficult to see potholes and bumps in the road.
• A pile of leaves raked to the side of the road is an inviting place to a child. Children enjoy jumping into the leaf piles or burrowing down into them and hiding. Never drive through a leaf pile. Use caution going around turns and where children are playing.
• Keep your windshield leaf free to avoid wet leaves getting stuck under the windshield wiper blades.
In order to avoid the possibility of a fire hazard from the exhaust system or catalytic converter, never park your vehicle over a pile of leaves .
ok what about all the car,s and suv,s parked over night in the road all over the place.
what about every one is on a cell phone, talking or teeing, what about drinking in a car wile driving is that safe to have a hot tea or what ever you drink.
Speaking of leaves, the road gang created massive piles of leaves in my area on Thursday.
And that’s okay assuming that they would collect them today.
They didn’t.
I hope they’re working tomorrow….it looks stupid and it’s dangerous to boot.
they should tow the cars parked overbite. Too bad the overbite parking ordinance is a joke and unenforceable as currently written.
Typical stupidity by the village.
huh to#4
This is the level of service that that Village Management and service provides have come to understand that the pay-a-lot-of-taxes-but-bend-over-and-take-it residents of Ridgewood will accept.
Long gone are the days of premium services provided to RW residents.
In the past, we’d keep only the quality workers and fire any lazy ones, replace any contractor who isn’t providing superb services and customer service and vote out and Council members who could not or would not keep village management running smoothly and effectively for the residents.
Today we gleefully vote in self-serving political hacks happy to cut corners and cut deals with private concerns and who are unable or unwilling to hold village management, contractors and employees to a high standard. The prevailing attitude is that “mostly good” or “trying to do the job” is good enough. Results do not seem to be high on the list of things that matter. Pride of accomplishment of a job well done and doing whatever it takes to get the job done and get it done right are apparently non-existant. This is systemic but becomes very visible in things like leaf pick-up.
But don’t knock the leaves… they are proof of Ridgewood’s beautiful old trees — Ridgewood’s last remaining vestige of its status as a premier place to live.