Life in the Fast Lane

Here's to our neighbors in Trenton, in the Mill Hill Section, on their creative idea to "bring home" to the road to emphasize their desire for traffic calming in their neighborhood. Last week they set up a "living room" on the street, complete with a with a sofa, coffee table, bookcase and a running television. Not so average was the location -- on Market Street, between Jackson and Mercer streets, in the Mill Hill neighborhood where, according to residents, motorists habitually speed and run red traffic lights. The "living room" was the most recent and probably more dramatic effort by the Old Mill Hill Society to call attention to the traffic violations they say put neighborhood residents at risk every day. Residents hanging out in the "living room" yesterday passed out flyers to motorists stopped at the light asking them to, "slow down and stop at the red lights, please." A few honked their horns in support."
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