It’s long past time for Love Elementary School to have a better pick up and drop off area.

So we hope that Councilman Tony Dolce’s work with the principal of Love Elementary School as well as the Jamestown Public Schools District results in positive development for parents and children who attend the school.

Options include limiting parking on Pine Street near the school, limiting parking on Spring Street to the school side of the street only so students don’t have to cross the street and trying to create a student drop-off area.

Physical changes may help – though we note physical changes at other schools haven’t resulted in easy pick up and drop off. The city and school district may be able to make the situation better, and should do so if possible, but even installation of traffic loops hasn’t stopped traffic back-ups at Persell. Limiting parking to one side of Whitehill Avenue or Myrtle Street near Fletcher Elementary School doesn’t mean traffic isn’t a problem at 8:20 a.m. or 3 p.m.

The streets around our schools aren’t designed for the amount of traffic they see each day. That’s a particular problem for Love Elementary School, with Route 60 being a main thoroughfare for traffic coming into and out of the city at precisely the time parents are trying to get their children to and from school.

As has been the case at other schools, trying to ameliorate the situation at Love Elementary School means trying to shoehorn a solution into a tight area. We shouldn’t let perfect be the enemy of better – but no one should be under the illusion that conditions around the city’s schools will ever be perfect.