Ho-Ho-Kus resident told to remove traffic strips from Powderhorn Road
SEPTEMBER 22, 2014, 6:04 PM LAST UPDATED: MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 2014, 6:35 PM
BY CHRIS HARRIS
STAFF WRITER
THE RECORD
HO-HO-KUS — A Powderhorn Road resident broke the law when she hired an engineering firm to install traffic counting cables along her street last week without permission, local officials said.
A letter hand-delivered by a Ho-Ho-Kus police officer Monday afternoon warned Donna Cioffi that if the cables aren’t gone within 24 hours, the borough will have them removed.
Cioffi has long argued traffic volumes down her street — a popular County Road 502 commuter cut-through — exceed the 4,000-plus vehicles that recent counts from municipal officials suggest utilize Powderhorn Road on any given day.
When Cioffi failed to convince borough officials to commission a new traffic study, she took matters into her own hands, paying $600 for a firm she won’t identify to install the traffic strips at night.
The strips record data on traffic speeds, volume and vehicle weight.
“It has come to the attention of the borough government that you have had traffic counting cables placed across Powderhorn Road without the express written consent of the borough of Ho-Ho-Kus,” the letter to Cioffi reads.
“The borough further understands that these cables are connected to an electronic box located in a public right of way,” it continues. “This activity is an illegal encroachment over the public right of way.”
The letter puts Cioffi on notice, saying the strips need to be excised.
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Okay, so she got caught putting in her own traffic counters.
But now what ?
Clearly 4K cars zipping past your house each day is insane….
If she doesn’t like traffic, she should have bought a home on a dead end street.
Same as the people bitching with their dumb signs on Clinton st.
Should have bought on a cul-de-sac or a dead end.
By now she should have a few days worth of data anyway. She will find out if her perception in any way reflected reality.
And it only cost her the price of a new iPhone.
I think someone else said this, but 4000 cars/day = 166/hour = 2.75/minute. That’s based on 24 hours. Cut it to 18 hours and you get 222/hour = 3.7/minute
I find it hard to believe that there are that many cars going through that street.
#4 – I’ve used that cut through myself….it’s fairly busy during commuting hours….
Its a public street and the traffic is a result of the closing of the racetrack road/RT 17 traffic light/intersection.
Now all the traffic has to cross the highway at Hollywood ave, so the shortest route is through Powderhorn.
That same crossing being closed caused a huge increase on walthery (from linwood).