The following is an ‘Ask The Mayor’ question submitted to TLS, and the Mayor’s response. Email your questions for the Mayor to [email protected].

Question:

What is being done to curtail the excess speeding, accidents, and fatalities on route 70?

I have lived here for 20 years and I have never seen the destruction by motor vehicles that I’m seeing over the past few years. My friend and I ran to do a few errands today. We ran to Aldi’s and were heading back to airport road.

As we were leaving Aldi’s two cars traveling East, clearly racing in the middle of the day, went flying past us at a rate of at least 90 to 100 miles an hour. I can’t even imagine what would happen if they hit anyone at that speed.

But more amazing was here in the same short trip, we caught the light on 70 and New Hampshire when I totally different car, an SUV, went flying past us through the red light! I would say it was red for a good three to four seconds.

It’s a miracle that New Hampshire’s traffic had not started through the intersection yet. What is going to be done about this? It is so dangerous to drive on 70 today.

Response from Mayor Coles:

Our police department has been working with the municipalities along Rt 70, from Brick to Manchester, along with the State Police, Sheriff’s Department, and County Prosecutor’s office to stage targeted enforcement along the road to try and eliminate this activity. I will also ask the chief to do some additional enforcement there.

Thanks,

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