Garden City Holding Meeting To Kick-Off Village-Wide Traffic Study

GARDEN CITY, NY — On Sept. 28, the village will be holding a kick-off meeting for its traffic calming study.

Creighton Manning, who completed a traffic calming study in the Central section, has been hired to study the East, West and Estates sections to evaluate and make recommendations on traffic calming measures to address the many traffic complaints received by the village every week. The study will look at possible treatments for all the different roads in the village, but the recommendations will focus on village-owned streets.

The meeting will be held at the Senior Center, located at 6 Golf Club Lane, at 7:30 p.m.

The meeting is an opportunity for residents to get involved in the study and provide input. Creighton Manning will share with residents the goal of the study, review the study areas, explain how those areas were identified, and summarize how the study will be carried out.

During its presentation, Creighton Manning will present examples of traffic calming treatments which may come out of the study, as well as other actions the village may want to explore. The goal of the study is to provide the village with a Traffic Calming Master Plan, aimed at making streets safer, and community input will be key to those efforts.

The primary mechanism for feedback during the study will be the use of an online mapping application called Survey 123. The site allows residents to mark specific locations and select from a drop down list of issues they see, such as speeding, dangerous driving, etc. The Survey 123 site will be live from the start of the study for roughly a month (the exact dates will be posted on the site).

For those residents looking to be more involved, they can sign up for one of the Community Advisory Committees (CACs) at the meeting. CACs are small groups of residents who will participate in two virtual meetings: a listening session at the start and a sketch review meeting to discuss concepts for treatments. The study calls for three groups (one from each section — East, West and Estates) of roughly 20 residents; spaces will be limited to ensure productive and efficient meetings.

Following the Creighton Manning presentation focused on traffic calming measures, there will be a report on the status of current village requests surrounding county roads and advice from counsel on limited measures within the village’s control regarding the county roads.

During the study, Creighton Manning will work with village staff, including the Department of Public Works and the Garden City Police Department. Police Commissioner Kenneth Jackson was involved in the prior studies. He contributed to the development of the scope of work for the new study and will be involved in review of vehicle speeds, crashes, and other traffic-related data, as well review of any treatment concepts that emerge in the later stages of the study.