photo by Ridgewood PD
Reader says I am all for the current construction change the current two-lane layout gets too crowded
I am all for the current construction change. The current two-lane layout gets too crowded . People currently switch lanes right now in a moments of indecision or to try and overtake. The new layout will lead to a more orderly flow of traffic, with one good lane in each direction, instead of the two narrow lanes that currently exist.
Through-town traffic can only flow as fast as its narrowest or most congested point. This short stretch, either as it was, or as it will be, is not that point. My conclusion is that this work will have a positive effect. Now, whether the work itself is being done cost-effectively, that’s an entirely separate debate. I suspect, being that public funds at being spent, there will be the usual waste and borderline corruption that always takes place.
Asking people to take alternative routes while the construction is going on, I put that down to Government in action. It’s the standard advice they give out in every road maintenance project. I do, however, think that once all the work is finished, the workers and the equipment is gone, the lanes are nice and smooth, etc., that flow will not really be the same as it is right now.
My only real concern here is the usual banditry that takes place with public works projects. Take for instance the recent paint job at the pedestrian underpass. I forget the sum, but I think it ran into the $200,000 level. It was nothing more than rolling paint over the surface. It is already peeling.
I do not follow this person’s logic. “Through-town traffic can only flow as fast as its narrowest or most congested point.” That sounds like an argument against the change. If the current road is “too crowded” how will cutting it back to one lane in each direction help this?
If we remove a lane we constrict the flow even more. How does this omprove anything? With two lanes traffic will not back up as quickly. The right lane can continue (and right on red) when the left lane is waiting for someont to pull into the train station.
The same holds true for the other direction. We can make a right on red at Broad and keep moving even if Franklin is backed up by traffic and the lights.
It is a two way backup, not (as a woman on Facebook posted) just heading to the westside. It is the two way flow through Ridgewood.
I tend to agree with #1. Was there any kind of public approval process for this project or was it approved in private meetings to avoid public scrutiny? Seems like the latter is how this town operates more and more.
#1 is 100% correct.
But let’s not discount the new world order and their “green” agenda…
The addition of the bike lane and the increased auto congestion will promote residents to be more green and bike to town.
So it’s all good – everything is better this way… now fall in line.
Just wait until the first rainy day morning in the fall when everyone is trying to get their kids to RHS and traffic is backed up on the West Side to Monroe and traffic on the East Side is backed up to Maple and there is an emergency call and the police and EMT’s can not get through town. This entire thing is idiotic.
When is the construction set to be completed? I have a feeling that when the Village Council members get stuck in traffic during the 4th of July Parade they will finally understand what they have done. Hopefully they can have it “un-done” before school starts in the fall.
so who came up with this road set up.
They want you to believe that BUSH DID
A poster in another area pointed out that an ambulance will not be able to get through the traffic.
Was a traffic study ever conducted?
I for one want the two lanes because of some reasons mentioned. Travel it almost everyday out of town and use the right lane to make the “right on red” if light not green. Now I will have to wait for the light in a single lane just to make the right when i get to the intersection. And how is one lane where there were two, going to ease traffic? Don’t get it.