Ship Bottom officials know all about impatient drivers zipping through residential areas as a means to elude traffic lights and backups on Ninth Street as they set out to prove the shortest distance between two points is not a straight line. The focus, this time, is on Barnegat Avenue where it intersects with West 19th Street near the school bus garage in the area of East Bay Terrace.

Last month, officials heard from Dennis Hicker, who lives on East Bay Terrace across the street from the bus depot,…