Tag: Powderhorn Road

Traffic strips removed from Ho-Ho-Kus road

SEPTEMBER 26, 2014, 4:22 PM    LAST UPDATED: FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 2014, 5:20 PM
BY CHRIS HARRIS
STAFF WRITER
THE RECORD

HO-HO-KUS — Traffic counting cables illegally installed along Powderhorn Road one week ago were finally peeled from the street on Thursday afternoon, but Donna Cioffi warns that they could be returning.

Cioffi had been told by borough officials on Monday to remove the traffic counting cables within 24 hours, or else the town would intervene. However, the strips remained through Thursday, despite the written warning.

But now, “all illegal devices have been removed,” Cioffi reported Friday morning. “However, they may be returning, as per the recommendation of the engineer.”

Cioffi’s engineers, she said, suggested taking additional readings soon, as “they are not sure if the weight of the vehicles was registering correctly.”

Cioffi commissioned the independent traffic study of Powderhorn Road, where she resides, paying an engineering firm she won’t identify $600 to conduct the analysis. The longtime borough resident said she is confident that traffic on the popular commuter cut-through exceeds county estimates of approximately 4,000 vehicles on any given day. Cioffi maintains enforcement by borough police of weight restrictions has been lax along her street, where she’d also like to see traffic volumes reduced.

Cioffi said she plans to share the results with county and borough officials.

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Ho-Ho-Kus resident ignores borough’s demands to remove traffic strips from road

SEPTEMBER 24, 2014, 2:28 PM    LAST UPDATED: WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 2014, 11:51 PM
BY CHRIS HARRIS
STAFF WRITER
THE RECORD

HO-HO-KUS — Donna Cioffi said she was ignoring a letter from borough officials directing her to remove traffic-counting cables she paid an engineering firm to install across the street outside her home on Powderhorn Road.

The borough’s letter, delivered by a police officer Monday, threatened to remove the cables on Tuesday, yet they remained on the street Wednesday. The cables were eventually removed Wednesday evening.

Cioffi said Wednesday morning that she wasn’t at all concerned the town would intervene.

“Can you imagine the PR if they did?” Cioffi asked. “They would look like fools.”

Cioffi paid the engineering firm $600 to conduct the traffic study — the results of which will be forwarded to the borough, she said.

Cioffi maintains that traffic volumes on her street — a popular County Road 502 commuter cut-through — surpass the 4,000-plus vehicles that recent county estimates suggest traverse Powderhorn Road daily.

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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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