Ho-Ho-Kus woman steps up traffic fight
SEPTEMBER 19, 2014 LAST UPDATED: FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 2014, 1:21 AM
BY CHRIS HARRIS
STAFF WRITER
THE RECORD
HO-HO-KUS — For the better part of a decade, Donna Cioffi has been on a mission to curtail traffic on Powderhorn Road, an oft-used commuter cut-through on the street where she lives.
She has taken her complaints to both local and county officials, and, most recently, to the governor. And now, she has taken matters into her own hands.
Cioffi has paid an engineering firm, whose name she will not disclose, $600 to install traffic strips outside her home. She wants to collect data on traffic speeds and volume on Powderhorn — used as a shortcut between East Saddle River and Wearimus roads — for vehicles looking to bypass a U-shaped stretch of County Road 502.
The strips were taped to the pavement this week in the dark, Cioffi said. The aim is to dispute municipal estimates that 4,000 vehicles traverse Powderhorn Road on any given day; she believes it’s more.
“Well,” Cioffi said, “the town has done nothing to curtail the volume. They just give us lip service. But they’ve done nothing. Nothing.”
Local officials disagree with her claims.
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