CHESTNUT-MAIN PLAN A GO
Single Traffic Signal
On Single Strand Lives
Community Sentiment Saves Village Novelty
By JIM KEVLIN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com
COOPERSTOWN – Friends of what is, celebrate!
The single traffic light on a single strand across the Main and Chestnut intersection has survived the Village of Cooperstown’s first foray into federal transportation funding.
“For DOT” – the U.S. Department of Transportation – “it’s going to be a unique solution,” Village Trustee Cindy Falk, Street Committee chair, observed after recessing the final public review required in a funding process that had gone on since August 2013.
Federal regulations require two traffic signals for every lane entering an intersection, and originally had four signals rigged from poles that would have hung over the intersection from all corners, to the horror of members of the public who attended the first public review in March 2015.
