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Sayre Borough: Improving pedestrian safety
From The Morning Times:
A couple more incidents involving pedestrians being hit by motorists in the area around the Guthrie campus is resulting in forthcoming changes to some speed limits in that portion of the borough as well as the elimination of some parking spaces.
At Monday’s meeting of the borough’s administration committee, the committee agreed to recommend that the municipality amend its traffic ordinance to reflect these changes.
Specifically these changes focus on lowering the speed limit on South Wilbur Avenue from Hospital Place to Hayden Street and Hayden Street from South Wilbur Avenue to 100 feet west of Brock Street from 25 miles per hour to 15 miles per hour. In addition, the borough would also eliminate the parking spaces on the west end of Howard Elmer Park on South Wilbur Avenue from West Packer Avenue to Park Place.
Council President Henry Farley noted that another Guthrie employee got struck by a motorist while crossing Wilbur Avenue, and a child riding a bicycle was struck by a motorist on Hayden Street. “They (Guthrie officials) are asking to ‘please, slow the traffic down,’” said Farley. “Guthrie has the flashing lights (on Wilbur Avenue). They just need a speed limit sign to go with them.” “The way it works with our speed control is the speed limit is 25, but the officer has to give the vehicle until they get to 35 before he can write the ticket,” said Borough Manager David Jarrett.
The committee will recommend that the council implement these speed limit reductions on a 90-day trial basis at the board’s Thursday meeting. “It is critical,” said Farley. “It is not safe there, and we need to do as much as we can to calm the traffic down.” The other proposed amendment to the traffic ordinance is aimed at improving student safety on West Lockhart Street in front of Sayre High School.
That amendment would eliminate the north side of West Lockhart Street from North Hopkins Street to South Brock Street from the residential parking permit area. That area was originally zoned as “no parking during school hours” before it was included within the residential parking permit initiative. “Concerns were raised earlier in the school year where you had people dropping (students) going east and you had people dropping off going west, and you’ve got kids running in between cars,” said Jarrett. “I met with the school superintendent and high school principal, and we talked over a couple of ideas.”
One of the ideas was to eliminate that portion of West Lockhart Street from the residential permit parking area, said Jarrett. The other ideas were having an administrator from the high school out in front of the school and working to “keep things moving,” and having the police department increase its presence in that area, he explained.
The borough has already increased its police presence in that area as there is a police patrol dedicated to that school zone every morning, he said. With two of these criteria having been met, borough officials will be pursuing the additional option of having a school administrator out in front of the school during those morning hours, Jarrett added.
Other amendments being proposed to the borough’s traffic ordinance include:
• setting 10-miles-per-hour speed limits for the entire lengths of Chacona Lane, LaBarr Lane, Oliver Lane and Repasky Lane.
• “no right turn on red signal” for motorists turning east from Lincoln Street into the northbound lane of Keystone Avenue and motorists turning west from Lincoln Street into the southbound lane of Keystone Avenue.
The committee will recommend that the council vote to advertise these proposed amendments to the traffic ordinance at its meeting this Thursday night. That session will be held at 6 p.m. at the borough on West Packer Avenue.
The council will then vote on whether to formally adopt these ordinance amendments at its Nov. 20 session.
Carroll & Carroll, P.C. handles pedestrian accidents. You can find more information on these types of accidents here and here.
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