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Traffic Commission considers satellite studies across Village
LI CHAMPIONS
BY RIKKI MASSAND
Garden City High School’s Varsity Football team won the Long Island Championship by winning its game against Bellport 14-6. See pages 52-53
Santa to return aboard GCFD sleigh
The Garden City Volunteer Fire Department will once again be bringing the Operation Santa Program to the village on the week of December 13th. The volunteers will attempt to pass every block in town, however due to some space restrictions (dead ends, cul-de-sacs) they may not be able to visit every block. Santa will leave GCFD HQ each evening at approximately 6:30pm and will be out in
the neighborhood till approximately 8:30pm. The schedule will be as follows, however it is subject to change due to weather or emergency response: • Monday, December 13: Zone 1 - North Estates / Western Section • Tuesday, December 14: Zone 2 & 5 -Central / Estates Section • Wednesday, December 15: Zone 3 - North Eastern Section
• Thursday, December 16: Zone 4 - South Western / Estates Section • Friday, December 17: Zone 6 - South Eastern Section Everyone is able to track Santa’s route by visiting GCFD Santa Tracking page. The link will be posted each day on the GCFD Facebook page. Please be sure to like and follow the GCFD Facebook page for a more information and updates.
During the Garden City Traffic Commission’s meeting on Thursday, November 18 consultant Frank A. Filiciotto of Creighton Manning Engineering LLP presented the latest updates on traffic studies of the “numbered streets” and Cathedral Avenue, as well as a new proposal to look at sections of a few key thoroughfares elsewhere in Garden City with the use of satellites. The Traffic Commission plans to forward for Board of Trustees’ approval a new proposal from Creighton Manning to perform seven satellite studies of different parts of Garden City, and for the firm to include integration of its findings and suggested remedies with each study for purposes of master planning and evaluating community wide impacts. The proposal will also include specific measures for engaging residents and gaining their input about traffic concerns. Village Administrator Ralph Suozzi spoke about a prior conference call with Police Commissioner Kenneth Jackson and the Creighton Manning consultants that covered ways of examining Garden City’s traffic patterns at different times of day. They noted that issues to address are both longstanding concerns and more recent neighborhood speeding violations. The study Creighton Manning was in the midst of performing was then expanded to include seven study areas of the village instead of the six previously outlined, and the boundaries of the areas were also expanded.
Which roads should be studied?
“We think that the study that was sent to our Traffic Commission on October 27 is more representative of the traffic patterns that are out there with cut-through streets as noted by the police commissioner -- those were incorporated into this study,” Suozzi explained. Trustee Louis Minuto, chairperson of the Traffic Commission, emphasized the basis for the study and for Commission and GCPD examination and discussions of issues primarily involving speeding cars and trucks around the residential neighborhoods. He said, “the goal is to calm traffic across the entire village.” Minuto told Suozzi the study Creighton Manning is working on should be identifying more than “obvious hot spots” in the village, from Clinton Road and Washington Avenue to New Hyde Park Road. Trustee Mary Carter Flanagan asked if the Creighton Manning study will include Nassau county-owned roads. See page 46
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