Health and safety, hang in the balance
The Health and Safety of south-central Pennsylvania residents hang in the balance!
It appears to me that PennDOT will be taking the brunt of the heat if they approve the Dallastown School Board's road access plan.
By adding multiple traffic lights, school zones, they will knowingly impede all of our First Responders as they use our main emergency access, federal/state trauma routes to travel north and south as they respond to a classification of industry known and recognized by the Department of Homeland Security as being potential WMD targets that are located within Springfield Township.
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It was pointed out to me recently that PennDOT via a comment made by a state legislator has been aware of our emergency access routes situation to these chemical sites for years and that is why there were no traffic lights in this section of the old York Road which includes the adjacent Loganville area.
Where are all of the parents of the children who will be bussed from all parts of the Dallastown School District to this school? Do they know that Springfield Township has Hazardous Material SARA Title III facilities located just south of this school that has already received worldwide attention and can never be hidden! Aren't these parents of these students concerned? Do they realize what the school board is trying to do? Are they concerned about the safety of their children?
Check the state records for yourself to see how bad of a situation we have been Springfield Township?
Independent Public Safety USE and Awareness meetings are now being scheduled in the Springfield Township area to keep the public informed as well as give them an opportunity to voice their concerns.
Call Governor Rendell (717) 787-2500 and voice your concerns! He already knows about the HazMat problems that are in Springfield Township! “In hazardous material situations, seconds count.” also he said “There is no margin of error and no time to wait when it comes to protecting the health and safety of Pennsylvania's families and businesses.”
Don't forget to call the Springfield Township Supervisors (428-1413) and the Dallastown School Board to voice your concerns.
Simply put, if our First Responders cannot get to the Hazardous Material sites ASAP everybody is in trouble! Seconds Count!
What say the parents of these children?
The point that still baffles this community is if there has been a road proposed years ago to solve all these problems, which is called Road (A) which has been adopted back in 1996 why isn’t the School District using this proposed road entrance for the school?
Is this school, being built for education or is this school board looking to build a major community center? Where are their priorities? Did the citizens make another mistake when they elected these officials?
Do the taxpaying citizens of the Dallastown School District realize all of the cost overruns that have already accumulated because of the school district trying to build a fancy building without considering the basic safety of the students and the surrounding community. Is there something wrong with this picture?
A final decision for approving the school plans will ultimately fall on the Springfield Township’s Supervisors for their approval. The safety of all of the Springfield Township resident and these students supersede that a proposed school and its entrance locations?
How is the school district going to explain all of these millions of dollars of cost overruns that they have now created?
Thousands of lives are at stake in this school entrance decision, and nobody from PennDOT can yet see the big picture!
Should the community be looking to their legislators for help?
You decide!
Michael Jacoby
Springfield Township
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