HomeMy WebLinkAboutPerry-Lindsay, Robyn
3 february 2006
Dear Mr Russel,
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After reading this weeks story in the Suffolk Times 'Arguing Affordables' (P.3,
Feb. 2, 2006), I find that one point has yet to be made.
First off the intersection of Factory Avenue and Main Road is typically backed up
to the entrance to the Waldbaums Shopping Center (aka A&P) with the
relatively small amount of traffic from the shopping center on any given
wintertime weekday morning or afternoon. Second, the trucks and delivery
vans make it nearly an impassable road during the peak moring and afternoon
hours with the abundance of vehilcles littering the roadway with deliveries to
the shopping center- evidenced by the new paving, fencing and NO TRUCKS
sinage at the Baptists Church on Factory Avenue. So where does that leave not
only all of the construction vehicles and machinery to build not only the 36
homes and accesoty apartments, but also all of the traffic coming to and from 36
homes with accessort apartments once built? Westphalia and Cox Neck Roads
and Route 48.
Anyone familiar with the intersections of route 48 and Westphalia and Cox Neck
Roads knows how dangerous those two crossings currently are. Regualar
accidents are a reality to anyone who lives within earshot of either intersection
and those who find it necessary to dodge traffic daily to hopefully make it to their
homes and families safely.. With the new run-off basin at Westphalia, added
traffic in the form of U-turns by vehicles pulling boat trailers are a necessity for
anyone leaving the inlet and heading east. Add to that the additional traffic on a
small, already extremely busy road from an additional 36 homes with
apartments- if only half the homes had apartments and the homeowners had 2
cars per household, this would mean an additional 90 cars per day attempting to
find their way through these dangerous intersections. Please note that factory
Avenue itself is not long enough to accomodate half of those cars.
To consider additional and overly dense housing when the intersections affected
by said developement are currently unsafe and long overdue for proper traffic
control is completely irrisponsible and unfair to the residents of the area.
Please consider how the people who live in the immediate areas are affected by
this monterous plan before giving thought to allowing this project to move
forward.
With Respect.
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Robyn. Perry-Lindsay and family
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