In A Little Beacon Blog’s recent series of articles on selfish, law-breaking driving that includes people crossing the double yellow line, going around school buses, crossing the white line, etc., this bumper sticker was spotted out in the wild. It reads: “Speed GPS Monitored. Thank You For Your PATIENCE”

Note that PATIENCE is in all caps.

At the beginning of the 2021/2022 the school year in September, Mayor Lee Kyriacou along with Police Chief Sands Frost announced that the Beacon Police Department will be implementing a Back-to-School Traffic Safety Campaign through the month of September. The announcement stated that the Police Department will "deploy increased traffic enforcement patrols at key locations to ensure that students of all ages are able to safely travel to and from school."

The announcement stressed that there "will be stepped up patrols, and tickets will be issued for violations including passing buses, speeding, not yielding to pedestrians in crosswalks, making U-Turns on Main Street, and not obeying traffic control signal and devices."

School does continue after the initial first month, all the way into June. It is not known if this initiative has been continued into other months. A Little Beacon Blog has reached out to the Beacon Police Department to find out, and to see if they keep data on and can release statistics on any enforcement of traffic violations, like U-Turns, crossing over the yellow or white lines, speeding, passing school buses, etc. If we get a response, this article will be updated.

Readers have started commenting on ALBB’s double yellow line article, “Double Yellow Line Crossing Is Illegal, Rude, Really Bad, Horrible - Just Stop”, with recent stories from November that include:

nicole__tori: “Some a-hole crossed the double line today as a mini school bus was coming the opposite way. It was a very close call as they passed over the double yellow played chicken with the school bus and then cut the the driver off in front of them. Small oldish gray car.”

wellnessformakers: “So true, I can’t believe how fast drivers go on Verplanck near the Middle School. Especially while so many students walk to school and have to cross such a busy road at the light without a crossing guard. What’s the rush?”

glassoverboard: “Not just Beacon. This happens every where. I was in Newburgh local road speed 30mph and a car went over the double sided line passed by only to stopped by the red light and I was behind me.”

Of course, with more enforcement comes personal encounters with police and citizens. After 2021's racial reawakening, those encounters have more scrutiny on equal enforcement, and communication style during an encounter.