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Pedestrian Traffic and Safety Meeting to be Held at West Orange High School Oct. 15
WEST ORANGE, NJ – The West Orange Pedestrian Safety Advisory Board will host a Pedestrian Traffic and Safety Meeting in Tarnoff Cafeteria at West Orange High School on Oct. 15 beginning at 7:00 p.m. The board is comprised of elected officials and community advocates.
Noted traffic expert Charles Brown will moderate a discussion regarding ways to improve traffic safety in West Orange.
Brown, a senior research specialist at Rutgers University’s Alan M. Voorhees Transportation Center, worked with his fall graduate class of civil engineering students from Rutgers’ Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy to conduct a traffic audit of West Orange streets.
12 students traveled to West Orange to examine 20 streets recommended by the township for safety and aesthetic issues, photographing areas and issues they believed should be addressed. In September, members of the Pedestrian Safety Advisory Board met with the students in New Brunswick to discuss their findings.
“Our town has been very fortunate to receive tens of thousands of dollars worth of professional crash analysis and complete streets evaluation,” began Roz Moscowitz Bielski, President of the Pleasant Valley Way Civic Association.
“On Oct. 15, we, the stakeholders get to engage in meaningful dialogue for safer roads. Most of our roads haven't been assessed in 40 years. There is infinitely more cars and no redesign for bicyclists and pedestrians,” she noted.
"If people don't come out and voice their concerns it gives government the excuse to change nothing," she concluded.
Cynthia Cumming