Letters

I just read the article in The Press about the Somerset Avenue traffic proposed fixes [“Southampton Village Board Looks at Options for Mitigating Cut-Through Traffic on Somerset Avenue After Accident There” 27east.com, January 14].

This is not the first time that this issue has come up. I do not remember the exact date that the road was blocked off with fencing, also at the same time Lee Avenue, Corrigan Street and Bishops Lane were listed as problem areas.

And now, with the proposed fix for Somerset Avenue, Corrigan Street and Bishops Lane will have a bigger issue with the traffic. I live on Pelham Street, and long before the Somerset Avenue problem cropped up, I contacted the trustees many times over the years about the rush-hour traffic. Nothing was done. The streets in my area, West Prospect, White Street and Coopers Farm Road, get a lot of traffic during rush hour.

So all the attention seems to be focused on Somerset Avenue, Corrigan Street and Bishops Lane, as was in the past. My street, as well as the others, do not seem to be that important to have engineers address the issues and fixes. I have never seen anything mentioned by the trustees, past or present, about doing something with the traffic issues on the streets in my area.

We, as village residents, deserve equal treatment, the same as the ones addressed in The Press. No street should have preference over other areas in the village that are impacted every day.

I want to mention that Coopers Farm Road has two blind curves heading from the library and the one farthest west is the worst, you cannot see around the corner. That should be as dangerous as the ones on Somerset Avenue, and when there are landscaping trailers near the corner you have to drive around them to make the turn. This is a dangerous situation.

I walk every day around my neighborhood and hardly anybody makes a full stop at any of the stop signs. The ones on Pelham Street and the one at the corner of Armande Street are the worst. I hardly see any cars make a full stop there, they just roll through the stop sign.

I also wonder what happened to the right turn enforcement on the streets going to Hill Street. I thought that was supposed to stop the traffic on the local streets. I recently mentioned speed humps on the streets to the trustees. There is a speed bump on Halsey Street. The village needs to address the situation as a whole, not fragmented.

Lou Pizzanelli

Southampton Village