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Local committee hears residents, business owners say traffic, deliveries and safety strain island infrastructure
Summary
Committee meeting focused on congestion, rising peak demand, pedestrian and bike‑path safety, heavy vehicle impacts and the town’s limited capacity to manage incremental infrastructure projects, with residents and a long‑time business owner urging a mix of near‑term operational fixes and longer‑term planning.
Matt, a local business owner, told the Non‑Voting Taxpayers Committee that the island’s traffic and infrastructure pressures have grown markedly and that peaks are “double or double and a half” what they used to be, concentrating visitors into a shorter summer season. He said recent seasons feel like “4 or 5 weeks of summer and a few key holiday weekends.”
The concern threaded through the meeting: residents and committee members described crowded sidewalks and roads, difficulty for emergency vehicles, delivery and construction trucks clogging narrow streets, frequent bike‑path incidents and limited town capacity to deliver projects. Committee member Patty Goester suggested time‑of‑day or seasonal truck restrictions and traffic marshals at ferry landings to reduce vehicle‑pedestrian gridlock.
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