Progress of a different sort.
Church curve is finally being eliminated. Three years behind schedule but now becoming a reality.
The next funded for scheduled work on Colington Road is a slight widening with added four foot shoulders on both sides. Acquisition is not due to start for a couple of years yet. And then construction.
And so meanwhile we plug away at finding alternative and safe ways to get non-vehicular traffic from any point on Colington Road to the beach.
Some say that only DUI and beer buyers use the road without the advantage of a vehicle so why bother to help them.
We reply that many, many more would use a safe pathway if it were available. No one with any other way to travel is going to travel alongside the road now.
Those that we do see walking or cycling have no other choice. Just because they might have a DUI, they still need to get to work, to the doctor, to the grocery. And safely.
A typical moment at just about any time of the day along Colington Road. Do we really want our teens going to school or the beach negotiating this traffic on a road with no shoulder.
Finally a huge shout out to Steve Lambert and the ARPO for funding a mailing to all Colington residents describing the problem and asking for suggestions.
