JACKSONVILLE, Fla. \u2014 Three students were hit by vehicles and one killed already to start the school year in Duval County.<\/p>\n
Now, southside Jacksonville neighbors are raising concerns about the safety of a bus stop right along the outside of a roundabout on Touchton Road – near Southside Boulevard.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s not real safe, because two weeks ago, down Belfort Road and Touchton [Road] right here, this sign right over here, somebody came through with a truck or a car and knocked all those signs right down,\u201d Robert Henning told Action News Jax Sunday morning.<\/p>\n
>>> STREAM ACTION NEWS JAX LIVE <\/b><\/a><\/p>\n Now, neighbors in Jacksonville\u2019s southside are asking the stop to be moved closer and onto the same side of the road as the Montreux at Deerwood Lake complex.<\/p>\n The current stop is located right next to two different roadside memorials for people who have lost their lives on the same stretch of Touchton Road.<\/p>\n \u201cNot only is that depressing, it also speaks to how dangerous the circle is,\u201d neighbor Felicia Thompkins said. \u201cThere\u2019s been so many accidents [here] … at least twice a month.\u201d<\/p>\n Action News Jax reached out to Duval County Public Schools about neighbors\u2019 concerns on Friday. While the district asked that Action News Jax have those neighbors contact the district so they can look into the concerns, Bob Henning says he has already in previous years, and that the district has moved the stop when asked, but only to move it back the very next school year. Now, neighbors are asking for a permanent solution.<\/p>\n \u201cI just get tired of calling them when it gets corrected for one year and then we have to go through it again the next year,\u201d Henning explained.<\/p>\n Meanwhile, district officials are reassuring that student pedestrian safety is an issue of the highest priority across the city this school year.<\/p>\n \u201cThis is not just an issue that\u2019s affecting one district; it is affecting all seven board districts, and I\u2019m not the only board member engaged,\u201d Duval County School Board member Cindy Pearson told Action News Jax earlier in the week. \u201cAll seven board members are engaged.\u201d<\/p>\n [DOWNLOAD: <\/b>Free Action News Jax app for alerts as news breaks<\/b><\/a>]<\/b><\/p>\n [SIGN UP: <\/b>Action News Jax Daily Headlines Newsletter<\/b><\/a>] <\/b><\/p>\n Click here<\/b><\/a> to download the free Action News Jax news and weather apps, <\/b>click here<\/b><\/a> to download the Action News Jax Now app for your smart TV and <\/b>click here<\/b><\/a> to stream Action News Jax live.<\/b><\/p>\n Action News Jax Top Stories<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"JACKSONVILLE, Fla. \u2014 Three students were hit by vehicles and one killed already to start the school year…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":172106,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5136],"tags":[5229,3188,723,7310,79747,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-172105","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-jacksonville","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-fl","10":"tag-florida","11":"tag-jacksonville","12":"tag-school-bus","13":"tag-united-states","14":"tag-united-states-of-america","15":"tag-unitedstates","16":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","17":"tag-us","18":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115084658411534927","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172105","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=172105"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172105\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/172106"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=172105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=172105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=172105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}