{"id":183417,"date":"2024-09-09T22:00:56","date_gmt":"2024-09-10T03:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=183417"},"modified":"2024-09-10T21:41:44","modified_gmt":"2024-09-11T02:41:44","slug":"tenneco-official-asks-for-help-with-speeding-drivers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2024\/09\/09\/tenneco-official-asks-for-help-with-speeding-drivers\/","title":{"rendered":"Tenneco asks for help with speeders"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>SCOTT TRUXELL\/<\/strong><em>independent editor<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you travel along Fisher Ave. in Van Wert, especially during normal working hours \u2013 slow down.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>During Monday night\u2019s meeting of Van Wert City Council, Aaron Montgomery, EHS Manager at Tenneco shared his concerns about employee safety along the street, noting that vehicles sometimes come through well above the 25 mile per hour speed limit, which poses potential safety problems for workers crossing the street. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright size-full\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"350\" height=\"277\" src=\"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Fisher-Ave-Van-Wert-9-2024-e1726022456766.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-183419\"\/><figcaption>Speeding motorists have prompted concerns about the safety of Tenneco employees who cross the street. <em>Scott Truxell\/Van Wert independent<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe have a parking lot that houses probably half of employees throughout our three shifts \u2013 we operate 24 hours a day, five days a week \u2013 and so employees are constantly crossing the road non-stop throughout the day, 500 or 600 times a day and for whatever reason when people turn on that road they think it\u2019s a drag strip,\u201d Montgomery told council members. \u201cPeople will go down that road at 50, 60 miles per hour and so we have concerns for our employees\u2019 safety and well being just to come to work, leave work, go on break or to lunch.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Montgomery there is a crosswalk that goes to Tenneco\u2019s office, along with two other access points to the plant.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe do have signage at that one singular crosswalk but nothing that really gives drivers a heads-up,\u201d he noted. \u201cWhat we\u2019re hoping for is an elevated crosswalk in the middle, kind of like a glorified speed bump, that way drivers have to intentionally slow down. I don\u2019t want to cause too much disruption but I just want people to slow down, that way our employees don\u2019t feel like they need to dodge out of the way just to come to work.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Safety-Service Director Jay Fleming said the city won\u2019t install an elevated crosswalk or speed bumps, but would be willing to paint extra crosswalks, install more signs, move a speed trailer to the street and request increased enforcement on Fisher Ave.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>Several other topics were addressed during the meeting, including progress on Leeson Ave. and a discussion about e-bikes. Check Wednesday\u2019s News page for more information.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SCOTT TRUXELL\/independent editor If you travel along Fisher Ave. in Van Wert, especially during normal working hours \u2013 slow down. During Monday night\u2019s meeting of Van Wert City Council, Aaron Montgomery, EHS Manager at Tenneco shared his concerns about employee safety along the street, noting that vehicles sometimes come through well above the 25 mile [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-183417","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-04 11:29:46","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183417","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=183417"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183417\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":183500,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183417\/revisions\/183500"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}