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Safeway-Park Street Cut-Through Now One-Way

Feedback from a resident:

124 Park Street SE has painted their lot 'one-way only' to effectively close the very convenient cut through between Park St. and the Safeway parking lot. If drivers honor this new traffic flow, all Safeway traffic wanting to exit east on Park St. must now exit onto Maple or Glyndon and circle around to travel east on Park. This will divert that traffic onto busy Maple, across the lot in front of Jammin Java, and/or onto Echols to the very busy and dangerous 3-way 1-stop intersection at Echols and Park. This is unfortunate since that cut-through was very convenient and helped to spread the traffic pressure around. Do they really expect drivers trying to exit Safeway east toward Park to STOP and turn around when they discover the cut through has been painted one-way only? Either they physically close the cut through or remove the one-way markings, imo. And how can they force 124 Park customers to exit via Safeway, but not allow Safeway customers to exit via 124 Park? And that cut-through is a breeze most hours of the week... why shut it down 100% of the time? And what about the Echols/Park intersection... isn't time for the Town to put a traffic light there... AT A VIEWABLE LEVEL?

Comments

This situation needs to be attended to. Because of the one way marking cars are entering Safeway lot on the left side of the road. Traffic not aware of the markings are still exiting to Park St.- some after hesitating. Does the town know about this? Safeway did not although they have an easement across this property which they once owned. Safeway corporate office has been advised of the situation.

The markings are now gone; they've been replaced with speed bumps. It must've been because nobody, including two policemen on motorcycles, heeded them. I certainly ignored them after seeing the police ignore them...

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