Chestertown Town Manager Bill Ingersoll said the SHA is showing progress on moving ahead with a sidewalk on Flatland Road and 514—where poor lighting and the absence of sidewalks was blamed for a pedestrian being struck by a motorist last year.
“It was a very productive meeting and I told them what the public expects,” Ingersoll said.
Ingersoll said SHA Regional Planner Eric Beckett met with him and Tom Revelle and Larry Gredlein of the local SHA office on Feb. 14 to kickoff a plan for the sidewalks.
Ingersoll said he told the group that he wanted preliminary sketches and ideas submitted to keep the public “convinced” that there was forward progress on the plan.
He said there was discussion of the lighting and asked SHA if they could get Delmarva Power involved with the lighting survey because SHA doesn’t get involved with lighting. Ingersoll recommended using LED lighting because traditional sodium vapor lights put out far less light as they age.
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Joe Diamond says
Pedestrian (from the Latin pedes…t0 walk) travel is fine. It is not compatible with vehicular traffic.
Cars are big. Trucks are bigger. Newtonian physics applies. Any Questions?
When pedestrians (including bicycles) mix with vehicular traffic bad things happen. No amount of studies and sidewalk construction is going to change this.
There is now a standard safe construction design for a two lane road with enough setback to afford come compatibility for these two types of traffic. If they attempt to retrofit it on Flatland road some residential property will need to be condemned. Betya!
Looks like a job for public transportation (the vehicular traffic I mentioned).
Joe