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Resident urges speed bumps and enforcement on Green Hill Road, citing narrow lanes and elderly pedestrians
Summary
Tricia Aiken, a Blowing Rock resident, told the council Oct. 14 that cut-through traffic and speeding on Green Hill Road endanger elderly pedestrians and asked the town for speed bumps, signage and enforcement.
Tricia Aiken, a full-time Blowing Rock resident, told the Town Council on Oct. 14 that speeding and cut-through traffic on Green Hill Road have grown worse since a 2021 traffic study and are endangering older residents who walk along the road.
Aiken said the section she described — about 0.4 miles near Heather Ridge and Wonderland Woods — is in Blowing Rock’s extraterritorial jurisdiction but is state-maintained. She said the 2021 traffic study covered a portion of Green Hill but not the stretch she lives on, and cited measurements she took showing the travel lane between white lines at 14.5 to 15.5 feet wide — narrower than the North Carolina minimum of 20…
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