Readers not sold on Village “Road fix” plan for Garber Square
We have always needed MORE width, not less. Before, it was 3.5 feet. Forget about “traffic calming”–we need 2 lanes, period, and making them too narrow is NOT the answer to anything.
Village Manager was concerned about cars jumping the median and hitting a bicyclist–have never seen that in 40 years. The difference between 3 feet and 8 feet to a moving, out-of-control car is zero.
Why not just make the median NARROWER and HIGHER, preferably with some material that allows light through, such as stone or brick?
Better, how about ONE foot wide and a foot or more high? Really think about it–actually DESIGN it. A lot of people are going to be looking at it and driving around it for a long time.
More space between bikes and cars would only be a good thing. And when they repaint it for two lanes in each direction, they’d have accommodated the trucks, ambulances, fire trucks, and supersize vans that zip through there constantly and might otherwise clip the cars and bicyclists.
Bike lanes are great on a straightaway but on a 90-degree curve with walls on both sides and in the middle, NO.
Are they going to rush to make the changes on Wednesday or have the public meeting urged by the League of Women Voters to enable more people to comment?
The “improved” width of 4 feet is too wide.
And what happens in the future when PSE&G or the water department needs to make repairs to 1 of the lanes in each direction?
Remember a few years ago, the had to cut out the curbing so traffic would flow in each direction.
Won’t be able to do it this time since the bike lane has priority
Why not eliminate the red light at the overpass and the left turns from Franklin on to Broad and Broad on to Franklin? This would smooth out the traffic flow……..
I really hope we are not spending a dime on this “traffic “study”. It would need to be conducted all over town to truly assess the impact (Ackerman/Godwin corner getting even worse, harder to make a left turn onto Glen coming from Willard Area, harder to turn on Glen from Oak, etc). Moreover, there is no basis of comparison! a post study with no pre is pretty pointless…
Unless construction started before March 31st, the new Village Manager should have put all major projects on hold until she had a chance to study them and produce some type of justification. To start construction in the absence of any traffic study, or consideration of changes that have taken place since a years’ old plan was developed, or without notifying the public, at a loss of $45k to the taxpayers (so far), falls to management, in my opinion.