Road Safety Group sets design workshop for town-center
intersection
A design workshop on proposed improvements to the intersection at Scott Dyer,
Shore and Ocean House roads will be held on Saturday, Oct. 27, from 8 a.m.-noon
at the Town Hall, 320 ocean House Road.
Any citizen interested in providing guidance and the redesign of the Town
Center intersection is invited to attend.
The meeting is in keeping with one of the Town Council's
goals for roadway and drainage initiatives:
"Utilize extensive citizen input in the finalization of plans for the Shore
Road/Route 77/Scott Dyer Road intersection."
Town Councilor Cynthia Dill, chairman of the town's Roadway Safety Working
Group which is hosting the workshop, called it an opportunity for citizens
to contribute to the aesthetics of the town's major intersection. "Citizens
can offer creative ways to hopefully make it attractive and pedestrian friendly,
and otherwise make it a reflection of what we value here in Cape Elizabeth,"
Dill said.
Suggestions will be presented to the Maine Department of Transportation,
which is designing the improvements and overseeing installation of a traffic
light there. Eighty-five percent of the cost of the project is coming from
federal and state funds, with a 15-percent local match.
Representatives from MDOT have already held one informational meeting with
citizens on preliminary design of the intersection. Citizens at that meeting
expressed concerns for safety, and for possible taking of some business property
adjacent to the intersection.
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