Complaints have been received associated to congested traffic issues at St. Anthony’s School.
It is unfortunate that the school could not have been placed on the property where it was initially planned. As we cannot move the school, we need to find a solution.
With that being stated, the cause of this congestion is parents and guardians attending to the school approximately 20 minutes before school gets released. This, in turn, is causing parents to block the access road on to school property.
Bus drivers are complaining that it is making it difficult for them to see, thus putting busses and students at risk.
Persons attempting to get to Quadrock Trucking and Excavating are being blocked off, thus interfering with that business as well.
There is a very simple solution. Parents and guardians, please do not attend to the school until after busses have left, roughly 3:20 p.m. Monday to Thursday and 12:20 p.m. on Friday.
If you need to pick up your child for an appointment, then make arrangements to pick the child up before 3:00 p.m.
We also ask parents and guardians if you cannot pull into the pick up area, then keep moving down the road.
Drumheller RCMP members will be attending the school to keep vehicles from stopping on the road or on the approach.
RCMP members will be sending any vehicle not in the pick-up area down the road. No stopping on the approach or on the road will be permitted. Repeat offenders may end up receiving a ticket for obstructing traffic.
Please, come a few minutes later. Nobody needs the stress associated to a problem that has such an easy solution.