Woodstock Committee Seeks State Help with Safe Pedestrian Routes

Nonprofit aims to improve pedestrian safety in downtown Arcadia

An Arcadia nonprofit wants to ask you a question: How easy is it to walk downtown? Thanks to a $25,000 grant from AARP, Arcadia Main Street is doing a survey to find out how safe - and easy - it is to walk downtown."We want people to tell us if there are areas where the sidewalks might be broken, if it needs to be repaired," said Pam Ames, the group's executive director.Watch FOX 4's Hunter Walterman talk to Arcadia's mayor about how this survey…

Woodstock committee seeks state help with safe pedestrian routes

WOODSTOCK, N.Y. — Complete Streets Committee members are hoping the town can be transformed into a walker’s paradise if the state Department of Transportation can work pedestrian-friendly improvements into updates planned for Tinker Street. Objectives developed for safer routes over the past two years were discussed Tuesday, July 8, during a Town Board meeting. “To get Complete Streets ideas incorporated in the DOT renovation, that’s a real game…

CT town makes big changes to improve pedestrian safety: They’re ‘already reshaping how people move’

Speeding or dangerously cutting corners along West Hartford streets will get more problematic for drivers as the town installs barriers to make roads safer