Anti-Idling Efforts Target School Zones
Caldwell educating residents about idling laws. Keeping parked cars running for more than three minutes is a no-no.
School is in, idling is out. That's the message Caldwell Environmental Commission Chairman Ann Marchioni is helping to spread. Marchioni held up one of the "No Idling Zone" signs which will be placed near school zones this fall at Tuesday night's meeting of the Caldwell Council. The signs are part of an effort to control idling in the borough which started with the council passing an anti-idling ordinance earlier this year. Not idling can save fuel and money, Marchioni said. "Idling for more than 10 seconds uses more fuel than restarting the engine. Ten minutes of idling uses as much fuel as traveling five miles," she said. Health benefits, she added, are another reason to turn engines off when cars are not in use. Idling causes air …
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steve
8:09 pm on Thursday, September 6, 2012
Listen folks If the best we can do with our hard earned tax dollars is waste them on nonsense like monitoring these hardened criminals who idle their own cars more then 3 minutes then we should cut some police officers and Caldwell politicians and really save the taxpayers some money!!! I've never heard anything more ridiculous in my life.....lolololololo more ›