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Green Tree council authorizes free traffic-engineering assessment after residents report speeding on School Street
Summary
After multiple residents raised safety concerns about speeding on School Street and other cut-through roads, the council voted to authorize the borough manager to arrange a free traffic-engineering assessment to study speed controls, sight lines and drainage and to produce cost estimates.
Green Tree Borough Council voted Aug. 4 to authorize the borough manager to engage a traffic-engineering firm identified in the meeting by residents to perform a free, on-site assessment of School Street and other streets cited for cut-through speeding.
The vote followed multiple public comments describing repeated speeding, unsafe sight lines and risks to children waiting at a bus stop. Resident Don Fingers said he had spoken with a traffic-engineering firm he named as David Brewster Company and summarized the firm’s concerns: site distances, drainage, driveway impacts and the physical dimensions and placement…
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