Woman says tractor-trailers driving over her property cause major damage
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[{'start': '1.067', 'end': '5.638', 'text': "FINDING OUT WHO'S ACCOUNTABLE.  IT'S VERY FRUSTRATING.  I GET UPSET.  IT'S MY HOUSE.  IT'S MY PROPERTY.  I TAKE CARE OF IT.  IT'S HER PRIDE AND JOY.  SUSAN EISENHOWER MOVED INTO THIS  YORK COUNTY HOME ALMOST TEN  YEARS AGO.  BUT OVER THE PAST FEW MONTHS, A  BIG PROBLEM OUT OF HER CONTROL  STARTED CREEPING INTO HER FRONT  YARD, WHICH HERE COMES ONE.  AND HERE'S ONE MAKING A RIGHT  HAND TURN, WHICH IS ILLEGAL, BUT  NOBODY'S DOING ANYTHING.  TRACTOR TRAILER DRIVERS ARE  MAKING AN ILLEGAL RIGHT TURN ON  HER ROAD AT THE INTERSECTION OF  YORK AND MUSSER IN EAST  MANCHESTER TOWNSHIP.  THEY'RE NOT SUPPOSED TO BE ON  THIS ROAD, YORK ROAD, AT ALL.  THERE ARE SIGNS UP AT WILLOW  SPRINGS.  THEY IGNORE THE SIGNS.  AND THIS IS THE RESULT.  SUSAN SAYS THE TRUCKS ARE  TEARING UP HER FRONT LAWN.  SHE'S ASKED FOR HELP FROM POLICE  TO ENFORCE THE POSTED SIGNS AND  TICKET DRIVERS.  I JUST DON'T THINK ENOUGH OF  THEM ARE GETTING TICKETED.  LIKE THIS MORNING I WAS OUT HERE  IN SEVEN MINUTES.  I COULD HAVE WROTE SIX TICKETS,  SUZANNE SAYS MORE SIGNS ARE  NEEDED SPECIFICALLY ON HER  STREET.  SHE SAYS THE DAMAGE TO HER FRONT  LAWN IS STRESSFUL AND COSTLY.  SUZANNE SAYS THAT SHE ACTUALLY  PUT BOULDERS UP HERE ON THE  INTERSECTION OF YORK AND MUSSER  BECAUSE OF THE PROBLEM WITH THE  TRACTOR TRAILERS.  SHE SAID WITHIN A WEEK,  GRADUALLY THOSE BOULDERS MOVED  TO THE OTHER SIDE OF THE  DRIVEWAY.  YOU CAN SEE HERE ONE TRACTOR  TRAILER HITTING THE BOULDER  CAPTURED FROM HER HOME CAMERA.  SHE SAYS IT'S GETTING WORSE AS  MORE AND MORE BUSINESSES OPEN  NEARBY.  THEY CONTINUOUSLY KEEP PUTTING  WAREHOUSES BACK THE ROAD HERE,  SO IN THE LAST YEAR IT'S GOT  BAD.  IN THE LAST SIX, EIGHT MONTHS.  IT'S TERRIBLE.  SUZANNE TOOK HER FRUSTRATIONS TO  AN EAST MANCHESTER TOWNSHIP  MEETING.  I REACHED OUT TO EAST MANCHESTER  TOWNSHIP POLICE TO ASK HOW  THEY'RE ENFORCING THE POSTED  TRAFFIC SIGNS.  THEY RESPONDED WITH THIS  STATEMENT.  THE TOWNSHIP HAS INSTALLED  BARRELS ON THE RESIDENTS  PROPERTY, WHICH HAVE BEEN  REMOVED DUE TO BEING DESTROYED.  PLACING A NO RIGHT TURN SIGN ON  ZIONS VIEW ROAD.  THE TOWNSHIP HAS BEEN TRYING TO  HELP TREMENDOUSLY, BUT IT'S A  STATE ROAD, SO THERE'S ONLY SO  MUCH THEY CAN DO.  AND WE'RE TO THE POINT WHERE  WE'VE REACHED OUT TO OUR  ATTORNEY NOW BECAUSE THEY  SHOULDN'T BE ALLOWED TO DO THIS,  AND IT NEEDS TO BE STOPPED.  I DON'T KNOW WHAT PENNDOT CAN  DO.  SO W WE WENT TO PENNDOT.  DAVE THOMPSON TELLS US HE SAW  THE DAMAGE FIRSTHAND AND  UNDERSTANDS THE FRUSTRATION.  WE DISCOVERED RECENTLY THAT  TRUCKS HAVE BEEN MAKING A LARGE  TRUCKS HAVE BEEN MAKING RIGHT  TURNS AT THAT INTERSECTION AND  DAMAGING HER YARD.  SO WE SENT A CREW OUT THERE TO  KIND OF SURVEY THE SITUATION.  AND SEE WHAT THE, YOU KNOW, SEE  WHAT WAS GOING ON.  TRUCKS ARE SUPPOSED TO TAKE  ROUTE 921 TO GEORGE STREET TO  INTERSTATE 83.  THOMPSON SAYS THERE ARE NO SIGNS  OF INDICATING A NO RIGHT TURN  FOR TRUCKS ON YORK AND MUSSER.  HE SAID THAT WILL CHANGE, AND WE  DECIDED TO INCREASE SIGNAGE IN  THAT AREA AND PROHIBIT RIGHT  TURNS FROM ROUTE 921 ONTO YORK  STREET.  SO WE'RE HOPING THAT THIS WILL  REDUCE THE AMOUNT OF DAMAGE.  AFTER WE STARTED DIGGING INTO  THIS ISSUE, PENNDOT SAYS IT WILL  ADD TWO EXTRA SIGNS AT THIS  INTERSECTION AND ADDITIONAL  SIGNS NEAR THE INTERSECTION,  GUIDING TRUCKERS TO I-83.  WE CAN'T DRIVE THE VEHICLES FOR  THESE PEOPLE, SO WE'RE HOPING  THAT THAT TRUCKERS, YOU KNOW,  WILL SEE THESE SIGNS AND  UNDERSTAND THAT THEY ONLY HAVE  TO GO ANOTHER BLOCK TO MAKE  THEIR RIGHT TURN ONTO GEORGE  STREET.  PEPENNDOT SAYS PROPERTY OWNERS N  TAKE ACTION IF THIS IS HAPPENING  TO THEM.  THEY RECOMMEND GETTING BARRIERS  FOR YOUR PROPERTY, BUT MAKE SURE  THEY'RE NOT ON THE ROAD.  CONTACT YOUR MUNICIPALITY.  THEY WILL THEN CONTACT PENNDOT.  EVERYONE IS WORKING TO HELP  SUZANNE AND THIS NEIGHBORHOOD,  BUT AFTER SIGNS ARE PLACED, IT  IS OUT OF PENNDOT'S HANDS.  AT THAT POINT, IT BECOMES AN  ENFORCEMENT ISSUE WITH THE  POLICE.  IF PEOPLE DISOBEY THAT RIGHT  TURN, SUZANNE SAYS SHE'LL  CONTINUE TO FIGHT UNTIL  SOMETHING IS DONE.  WE PAY OUR TAXES.  YOU KNOW.  I MEAN, IF MY PROPERTY WAS JUNKY  AND I HAD TRASH SITTING HERE AND  EVERYTHING, DO YOU THINK I'D GET  A CITATION?  YOU BET I WOULD.  YOU BET I WOULD.  BUT THESE TRUCKS CAN JUST KEEP  DOING IT AND DOING IT AND DOING  IT.  AND WHAT?  ONE OUT OF TEN GETS A TICKET?  I DON'T UNDERSTAND IT.  ON YOU"}]