Franklin Square answers calls for stop sign

SOMETIMES, all you have to do is ask. Again.

In November, Dina Clifford of Franklin Square complained to us that the intersection of Floral Park Road and Sunny Lane needed a stop sign to slow speeders. She feared the mix of traffic and students walking to and from H. Frank Carey High School and Washington Street Elementary School was an accident in the making.

After we called the Town of Hempstead, workers from the Traffic Control Division - for the fifth time since 2003 - investigated the intersection and consulted with the Fifth Precinct.

This time, there was a different conclusion: A stop sign will be installed when weather permits, within a few months. "One of the deciding factors [for the approval] was the intersection's proximity to a local school," town spokesman Michael Deery said.

Problems with traffic signs on town roads? Call the highway department, 516-489-5000.- Michael R. Ebert