The official start of summer is still days away, but its impact is already being felt by some Surf City residents who brought traffic safety concerns to light, saying children and grandchildren are aplenty in a neighborhood that has become an unsafe thoroughfare for speeders and tractor trailers.

“Seventeenth Street is a narrow street and unfortunately, where it is, it’s the main street coming right off the bay area and there’s a lot of traffic. We know that,” Louis Giele said.