Living on a major gateway into Gaslight Village, I have a birdseye view to the traffic problems and safety concerns. Traffic heading to D&W is not necessarily local residents, and often travel at speeds rounding the corner that does not anticipate foot, bike and new electric modes of transportation to literally be everywhere including in the street. We watch loads of electric scooters and bikes traveling at rates down sidewalks where slower movement is happening also. The parked cars along these major streets also exacerbates the feeling that a major accident is going to occur someday. The quantity of semi-trucks turning onto Croswell often blocks traffic in two directions. I’m surprised the loading docks of D&W and the service drive are not mandatory to handle this traffic in a town with so many schools, kids and smaller modes of transportation in constant use. Updated development would be great with more green areas in the center district but realistic traffic studies, not just to control speed, but to take into account the various modes of delivery and transportation (of young people) is absolutely necessary. Electric scooters going 20-25 mph with young riders do not mix with semis and out-of-town traffic that do not expect kids to be operating in the streets in such a manner. Having a town with downtown schools is wonderful, but the speeds traveled along Lake Dr, and speeds ’rounding’ corners in town make the core of our city feel more like a thoroughfare from Beltline to Grand Rapids city limits. Routing traffic down only parts of these inner streets is not the answer only because it would literally make those streets congested day-in and day-out.