Danvers Residents Sound Off on Safety Issues

Danvers, MA - Summer’s nearly here, and with each walk in the park, day at the pool and backyard BBQ comes the risk of snakebites, drowning and fires, but don’t worry! There’s no reason to stay cooped up inside all season.

Patch put together a list of summer safety tips to keep you safe and having fun while the weather’s warm. Make sure to give snakes their distance and always swim with a buddy to stay carefree during the dog days.

Keeping these tips in mind, there are other possible dangers that affect Danvers residents year round.

We asked Patch readers what they thought the biggest safety issues were in their town. Here’s a list of the most pressing problems, from break-ins to traffic jams:

• "Highlands elementary school on Hobart street. No school zone markings and flashing lights, congestive parking during pickup and drop off times, heavy traffic with large commercial vehicles. ..."

• "Heading down Spring street taking a left onto 62 in the morning. Drivers blasting down the breakdown lane to avoid the backup pulling onto Spring street! ..."

• "Drivers. The texting, cell phone yapping drivers, that drive too fast and do not pay attention."

• "The lights on 62 - someone is going to lose their life, there has to be a better way to change those stop lights"

• "Trying to get your car through Holten Street between Town Hall and the Church when cars are parked on both sides!"

• "Rt 62/128 intersection"

• "ALL of the new highway intersections!"

• "Getting on Route 1 north from Centre St. The people coming off from route one to travel down Centre St. seem to think they have the right of way."

• "Umm the lights under the bridges that you can't see.... Good job!"

• "The Rt 62 intersection at Rt 128 is worse than ever. To design a major roadway to have vehicles cut across 2 lanes of traffic to get to the highway is incomprehensible!!"

Is there a problem that wasn’t mentioned? Share it with us in the comments below or on our Danvers Patch Facebook page.