Created: 5/9/2007 12:48:17 PM 
Guilford County, NC -- The traffic on Piedmont Avenue seems to fly by.
"It's a busy road and a lot of people travel it in the mornings," says parent Kelli Simpson. "There's a lot of traffic in that intersection."
Including school buses that "back up" from their stop onto a two-lane road on the north side of Gibsonville.
"I wasn't sure if anything could be done about it, but if someone saw what I saw, would they think it's unsafe?"
2 Wants To Know took her concerns to Guilford County Schools.
"Although we hadn't had any accidents by the bus backing up, we concluded it was not the best thing to have the bus back up on Piedmont Avenue," says Jeff Harris, Guilford County Schools Transportation Director. "The bus is no longer backing up on Piedmont any longer."
We checked. The bus is now using a park access road to make the turnaround.
2WTK also took a viewer's e-mail about speeding through the school zone on Lindley Road near Guilford Middle. She says drivers use the road as a cut-through between Market and Friendly.
Using a radar gun, we found 46% of the drivers went more than five miles per hour over the speed limit. While doing that, we also discovered the school zone signs and lights were off. In fact, the signs had the wrong time listed. We contacted the city about it and they fixed it immediately.
With no lights, no stop signs, and a 55-mile-per-hour speed limit, drivers don't hit the brakes all that often on Bass Mountain Road just north of Snow camp in Alamance county.
When a bus makes it's stop at one particular part of the road, the bus disappears.
"Last year we had a log truck come through and almost hit the back of the bus. Luckily the truck didn't have any load on there but if it did it probably wouldn't have been able to stop," says Christie Williams.
2WTK contacted Alamance-Burlington Schools. This week, Christie sent us pictures. The "bus stop ahead" sign is in place and alerting drivers.
According to a viewer, the danger in High Point is the traffic tie-up on the way to Florence Elementary.
Parents who can't squeeze their way in, go the opposite direction on Penny road and cut through Parkwood Baptist Church so they can get in line. It's not quite what the church had in mind when they put up this sign.
"We get a lot of wear and tear in our parking lot and we've already had to do two patches in our parking lot," says Reverend Erik Davidson.
"There is a lot more traffic here during the week than on Sundays and Wednesdays when we have services here," then he smiles and says,? I?d love to see them stop in and join us for service."
The pastor calls the church turn-a-round a ministry. But drivers would probably call the situation on other end of Penny road a lesson in impatience.
We caught drivers, on camera, making their own lane on the shoulder in an effort to be free of the Florence Elementary traffic.
2WTK went to the city of High Point and police. The city is working with the DOT to come up with a solution. The police chief says it's more of an inconvenience than a safety issue, but offered an off-duty officer at the PTA's expense.
And while the solutions aren't always easy, finding a common ground between the issue and the answer is.
"It's all for the safety of the children," says Harris.
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