Road Repair, Traffic Flow Discussed by Village Board

Road conditions and traffic flow at a busy intersection in Lindenhurst Village were discussed at a recent meet of the .

According to Deputy Village Administrator Doug Madlon, sections of Delaware Avenue from John Street to Hoffman Avenue, from Hoffman to East Gates Avenue, and from Waco Street to 150 feet north of Montauk Highway would be repaved this week.

“The project will take approximately two days,” he said.

Two contractors hired by the village will complete the repaving project and funding from a New York State grant will be used to cover the cost of the project, Madlon said.

Also during the meeting, village officials discussed possibly removing the No Turn on Red signs at the intersection of East and West Gates Avenues and Wellwood Avenue.

Deputy Mayor Kevin McCaffrey asked if the board could look at removing the signs in order to facilitate traffic that gets backed up at the lights on East and West Gates Avenues.

The mayor answered, “We should have an engineer look at the corner.”

Village Administrator Shawn Cullinane said, “It’s been 10 or 12 years since the traffic and the corner has been looked at, and the traffic has increased in that time.”

Madlon later told Patch that McCaffrey feels it’s a long light on Gates, and it’s a very busy corner.

“The light is long, and the corner gets crazy in the morning with parents dropping off kids at the and at 3:30 p.m. when they pick them up, especially after the transportation was cut last year,” said Madlon, who further noted the increase of rush hour traffic through the village over the years.

“Kevin feels that maybe without the signs it could make traffic a little better,” said Madlon, adding, “Maybe the traffic signal needs to be adjusted. We’ll have a traffic engineer make some suggestions.”