Road safety working group seeks
input from citizens
A working group charged with studying road safety issues in town is seeking
input from the public on how to make travel safer in Cape Elizabeth.
The group, established by the Town Council in April, is charged with examining
possible traffic-calming techniques, with input from the public and from
professionals.
Suggestions or comments from citizens may be e-mailed to the group at
capeclrk@maine.rr.com or dropped
off at Town Hall.
The working group met twice this summer to determine specific goals and methods
of gathering information, group chairman Cynthia Dill, a member of the Town
Council, reported at the Aug. 14 Town Council meeting.
The group hopes to develop and recommend specific policies for implementation,
while building on planning and analysis resources already available to the
town. These resources will include, but not be limited to, the work of the
Comprehensive Plan Committee, the results of the town telephone survey performed
by Critical Insights in Nov. 2005, and the work of the 1996 Pedals and
Pedestrians Committee.
Goals of the working group include developing a traffic-calming policy for
recommendation to the Town Council; recommending specific methods and areas
for enhanced bikeway and pedestrian safety; and, making specific recommendations
for the enhancement of pedestrian friendliness in the town center.
The group will meet next on Sept. 13 and may at that time schedule a public
forum for later in the fall. The group will also consider the usefulness
of a survey dealing specifically with road safety issues.
Members of the group are, in addition to Dill, Town Councilors Carol Fritz,
Town Manager Michael McGovern, Town Planner Maureen O’Meara, Public
Works Director Robert Malley, Police Chief Neil Williams, local developer
Richard Berman, and Elizabeth Brogan, a representative of the Cape Road Safety
Coalition, a citizen group concerned with cyclist and pedestrian safety.
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