Village Hall Hearing At 7 Today
4-Way Stop Sign Eyed
For Glen, Grove Corner
COOPERSTOWN – The Village Board is planning at public hearing at 7 p.m. today on whether to erect a four-way stop sign at Glen Avenue (Route 28), the village’s northern gateway, and Grove Street. The hearing will be at 22 Main St., the Village Hall.
The move is proposed by Trustee Richard Sternberg, who chairs the trustees’ Public Safety Committee, who said there have been three accidents there in the past year. “This is a significant problem,” he said.
He said, despite a 30 mph speed limit and periodic speed traps on the Route 28 hill coming into the village from Fly Creek, “traffic is coming down Glen too quickly.” The situation will be helped if homeowners around the crossroads cut back their hedges to “legal height.”
He said that, while three accidents in a year may not seem like a lot, as a retired orthopedic surgeon he is aware of how injuries can ruin individual’s lives.
Mayor Ellen Tillapaugh Kuch said she’s looking forward to public input this evening. She pointed out that the Grove-Glen corner is the most accident-ridden after the Susquehanna-Beaver one, next to Bassett Hall.
The trustees could vote after the public hearing, or delay the vote until the next meeting.
can you tell me specifically who is having these accidents and why? Before potentially making things worse. There are already stop signs for the cross street… are people not stopping?
Consideration should be given to a light at the intersection of Chestnut and Glen Avenue – always a highly trafficed spot. Also Beaver and Chestnut need something, maybe an amber blinking light or regular light. This is a congested area due to MIB traffic and the new location of CVS, plus having Stewarts, Mirabito and Price Chopper wedged into a small amount of real estate.