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BOT approves traffic study, speed humps mulled
PLAYOFF RUN
BY RIKKI MASSAND
The Garden City High School Boys Varsity Lacrosse Team continued its run in the playoffs by beating Long Beach 13-5 in the semifinals. See page 50.
Garden Middle School girls’ science project headed to space station BY GARY SIMEONE
A small group of girls from the Middle School will have the distinction of having a project they worked on chosen to head to the International Space Station in the fall. The longterm science experiment involves the concept of microgravity on the germination of a tomato seed. Bridget Coviello ,Isabelle DeNoto, Samantha Racich and Elsie Ross formed the
chosen team. Christine Lebenns, a science teacher at the school, said the 7th grade four-girl team had worked on the project since beginning of the school year, and submitted their idea last November. “All the students in 7th grade had gathered in groups to work on different projects and this one happened to be chosen after being submitted through a variety of protocols,” said Lebenns.
She said the protocols included being sent to a committee of scientists, including the Garden City Friends of STEAM, and then on to Washington D.C. where the project garnered National recognition. The winning team/project was announced during a school trip to the Cradle of Aviation Museum last December. “Kids always have great ideas in their minds,” said Lebenns. See page 30
After a public hearing at the Garden City Village Board of Trustees’ meeting on Thursday May 19, the board voted in favor of approving a traffic calming study known as the Numbered Streets study, to be performed by consultants Creighton Manning Engineering LLP. From Creighton Manning, Frank A. Filiciotto explained the study of movement, east and west, on the numbered streets of the village’s central section. The surveys and report did not necessarily examine stop signs, traffic signals and general “treatments for the intersections” of each street. Cathedral Avenue was the subject of its own Road Diet traffic study, and Franklin and Hilton Avenues are also Nassau County-owned roads. “We really wanted to present the idea of a neighborhood traffic calming study as that is what was raised to us. The community reported their concerns about the cut-through activity and speeding on those streets. This is not making any statements about the north/south streets and what can be done on them, as well as more potential treatments for Cathedral Avenue – that was not our mission here, the mission was examining the east/west numbered streets in the residential areas. Due to that, our focus was on the treatments that are best-applied,” he told the board of trustees and residents at the May 19 meeting. Accident data was collected for both the east/west numbered streets as well as their intersections in Garden City’s central section. “We just looked at the gross numbers and not specific intersections – there are occurrences of accidents where crashes were noted, as Fourth Street and Cathedral Avenue had the largest number of crashes. The segments of roadways (east/west streets) see much fewer crashes than these intersections do, because of higher speeds and higher volumes on the north/south roads,” Filiciotto said. Deputy Mayor Tom O’Brien asked Police Commissioner Kenneth Jackson if follow-up with Nassau County could be a next step, to resolve several issues involving the Countyowned north/south roads. Jackson noted that the County See page 30
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