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Village considers putting Cathedral Ave. on a ‘road diet’ BY RIKKI MASSAND
The FiveStone Band and the New York Belles kept Seventh Street lively during the “Christmas in July” Friday night promenade on July 23rd. Upcoming themes are “Back to the Eighties” on July 30th and “Garden City State of Mind” on August 6th.
Adelphi to require student vaccinations for fall semester Adelphi University has announced that it will require all students to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 before returning to campus for the fall 2021 semester. The university said its decision is based on updated guidance from the Centers for Disease Control, which reported a surge in COVID cases due to the Delta variant. According to the CDC,
more than 83 percent of new cases in the United States are from the Delta variant. The school said according to research 97 percent of hospital admissions are among unvaccinated people. In its announcement, the school noted that although it has an existing incentive program to encourage students to get vaccinated, as of now,
only 26 percent of students had uploaded proof of full vaccination. Students who are fully vaccinated are eligible for $25 gift cards and are entered into a raffle for prizes including: a reserved parking spot, tickets to Mets and Yankees games, tickets to an Adelphi Performing Arts Center performance, and LIRR round trip tickets to New York City.
The Board of Trustees’ July 15, 2021 meeting featured a presentation on a traffic study of Cathedral Avenue, which has been the subject of heavy concern at both the Traffic Commission and the Central Property Owners Association meetings during the last three years. Cathedral Avenue today is a 44-foot-wide roadway which has four, 11-foot-wide travel lanes (two northbound and two southbound). It has no turning lanes and no shoulders; the area is largely residential with residential driveways along the stretch in Garden City, and there is a 30 mile per hour speed limit. The LIRR grade crossing west of the Garden City Public Library intersects with Cathedral, and there are five-foot-wide sidewalks along the road, The Cathedral of the Incarnation sits along a four-block area of Cathedral Avenue. The road is owned by Nassau County. Consultants Creighton Manning pointed out that Cathedral Avenue was and is already “Road Dieted” in the Village of Hempstead, immediately south of Garden City. To perform a Road Diet and traffic calming study, Creighton Manning Engineering had to adjust the data of a March 2021 study to match more closely with data from 2019, pre-pandemic, as the effects of the pandemic on the local traffic were calculated. The data collection performed in March was a 24-hour record of traffic data during the week of March 7 through 13, at two locations along Cathedral. Turning Movement Counts (TMC) were done at nine intersections involving Cathedral Avenue, and Creighton Manning noted that local Garden City schools were in-session when the data was being collected.
Ten year projection of traffic trends
What Filiciotto presented on July 15 was an adjusted model to predict traffic for the next 10 years. The analysis included scenarios of Nassau County and Garden City deciding on “Dieting” or “Not-Dieting” Cathedral Avenue. “This study is based on 2019 adjusted data and represents pre-pandemic conditions if COVID never happened. But our analysis then goes even further. Typically in traffic engineering you do not just want to analyze what’s existing; you want to look several years out to the future to confirm that projects can work. We’ve evaluated for five and 10 years from now, looking with an analysis See page 41
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