Village Board Approves New Stop Signs, Additional Traffic Laws

The Village of Lindenhurst Board of Trustees approved a new local law during a public hearing on Tuesday evening, bringing requested stop signs to busy roadways throughout the village.

The signs will be installed at Park Avenue at Vermont Street and S. Wellwood Avenue at North Brooke Street and Linden Street.

The signs on Vermont Street, which is on the border of Lindenhurst and West Babylon, seek to prevent drivers speeding down Park Avenue towards Montauk Highway or Hoffman Avenue.

The street has a posted speed limit of 30 miles per hour, but homeowners nearby told the board it was regularly ignored, even by their own neighbors.

"There's a bus stop on every single corner of Park Avenue... I cannot tell you how many times I've seen them go around the busses," Robin Lenihan, of Idaho Street. "We've had drag races... one was going 70 miles per hour!"

She added: "It's dangerous. It has to stop, somebody might get killed!"

"The speed on the Park Avenue is ridiculous," said Frank Bilich, of Vermont Street. He brought a petition with 66 signatures asking for changes to be made to slow drivers down.

Additional portions of the local law including a weight limit on Buffalo Avenue, where a resident reported trucks continuously traveling down the road leaving the pavement broken and destroyed, and a parking prohibition being amended on S. Broome Street.

The board later approved the measure following their regular meeting, with the exception of one pair of stop signs on Herbert Avenue. The board cited more inquiries were needed from residents at that location.