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Southern Ulster Times, Wednesday, July 31, 2019
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Traffic entangles The Views project
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The intersections near the proposed Views project pose significant traffic issues that the Lloyd Planning Board is considering. The project
site is directly to the north off of Mayer Drive.
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this suggestion eliminates traffic from
winding through the residential South
Gate Road and Mayer Drive.
Board Chairman Fred Pizzuto said there
would still be impacts from commercial
traffic servicing the first floor entities
that front onto Route 9W. Villari said all
of the residential and commercial traffic
flows were considered in the new study.
Town Engineer Andrew Learn voiced
concerns about this new suggested traffic
pattern.
“I worry about the stop line going north
on South Chapel Hill Road; that concerns
me a little bit in terms of the potential
for accidents,” he said. Chairmen Pizzuto
pointed out that traffic is coming south
onto South Chapel Hill Road at abut 50
mph. Learn concluded, saying, “other
than that I think it’s a good solution
but it only solves one of our issues; It
doesn’t solve the issue of a left hand turn
from South Chapel Hill Road onto Chapel
Hill Road, a backup that inevitably will
happen there.” Villari said if a “small
pocket” were incorporated at this point,
vehicles would be able to turn left towards
Route 9W while allowing cars to turn
right without a backup. Villari said the
expense for this fix would be worked out
between the applicant and the town. The
Planning Board, however, said the town
would not pay for this solution.
Attorney Palmer said they are at a
preliminary point in the process. Pizzuto
said moving traffic off of South Gate
Road and up through the neighborhood,
“was never going to happen. This is a step
in the right direction.”
Board member Lambros Violaris
questioned this “step in the right
direction,” pointing out that this project
will create additional traffic issues due to
the possibility of a Stewart’s Shop and an
Auto Zone store going in across Route 9W.
“The traffic is going to be exponentially
a lot higher versus that car dealership
[corner of Route 9W and Chapel Hill Road]
that gets virtually no traffic coming in
and out,” he said. “This is definitely going
to have to be studied and drilled down a
little deeper because there is going to be a
hot bed of activity just in that little 100 to
150 foot area with traffic going in and out,
now going in both directions, especially
on that little corner, and then you throw
in the Route 9W traffic with all the other
projects going in.”
Villari insisted they have looked at the
amount of traffic going south on Route 9W
and South Chapel Hill Road and consulted
with the Department of Transportation.
He said the DOT indicated there may not
be enough “gaps” in traffic to make a
right turn out and also whether there is
enough space for a car to make a turn out.
Villari, however, told the board, “it will
all be all right in the future. That is what
our analysis shows.”
The
board
and
the
project
representatives indicated that further
discussion will take place on the project
at the next few Planning Board meetings.