Traffic Safety Committee
TOWN OF HARWICH -TRAFFIC SAFETY COMMITTEE
June 9, 2021 10 am Regular meeting
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1. Call to Order.
2. Approval of minutes of: September 16 2020
3. Correspondence:
Annual Report to Board of Selectmen 2/16/2021
4. Public comment
5. Old Business
a. Pleasant Bay Road/Route 39- what is remaining to be completed from the Cape Cod
Commission traffic study , timeline
b. status of Miles/South/Pleasant intersection- new telephone pole in place, what is status of
moving wires and other tasks
c. status on Sidewalk from Harwich Port to harbor
d. status on visibility at Freeman and Route 28-Board of Selectmen accepted donation from
resident to fund the markings-when to be done
6. New Business
a. Discussion with Town Administrator 02/23/2021
b. Lovers Lane/Chatham Road -new bushes interfering with line of sight
c. Possible vote to request Town Administrator to place the improvements at Route39/Chatham
Road (“Hope ‘n’ Go) on the Capital plan
d. Discussion on creation/updating line of sight, bush issues.
e. Election of Officers
f. any other business that may come before the Committee
Adjournment
Authorized Posting Officer Linda Cebula
Date Posted May 26 2021
*Per the Attorney General’s office, the Committee may hold an open session for topics not reasonably anticipated by the Chair 48 hours in advance of the meeting following” New Business”. If you are deaf or hard of hearing or a person with a disability who requires accommodation contact the office of the Board of Selectmen at 508-430-7513.
Report of the Traffic Safety Committee
To the Harwich Board of Selectmen and the Residents of the Town of Harwich,
The Traffic Safety Committee is an advisory committee and reports to the Town Administrator. The purpose of the committee is to assist the town and staff with planning and design improvements to roadways, intersections, sidewalks, etc.
Due to the regulations that surrounded the current pandemic, the committee was only able to meet once via remote platform provided by the Town of Harwich.
We continue to monitor the changes to the intersections of Pleasant, Miles and South Streets, which involved moving a pole, and we are waiting for the utility to move the wires to the new pole. and is an ongoing project. We continue to monitor the lines of site at Rt. 39 and Chatham Road to address the line of sight issue entering Rt. 39 from Chatham Road.
The committee worked with the DPW to review and improve the line of sight at Freeman Street and Snow Inn Road at Rt. 28 to reduce the accident rate at this location. If time permits, we plan a review of the current status for allowing additional streetlights.
In the next year the committee plans on creating a policy to ensure lines of sight issues at problem areas are quickly recognized and addressed by appropriate town departments and resolved.
A reminder to the community that the Traffic Calming Policy and the Crosswalk Policy are both available on the Harwich website, the page for the Traffic Safety Committee.
We on the Traffic Safety Committee would like to thank all the staff of the Town and the Barnstable County Commission that assisted us in achieving our objectives. The committee has a vacancy for an appointed member and a member of the community has applied and is awaiting consideration.
With many thanks,
Traffic Safety Committee
Gerald (Jerry) Beltis, Chair
Linda Cebula, Vice Chair
Aram Goshgarian, Harwich Police Department
Lincoln Hooper, Harwich Department of Public Works
Griffin Ryder, Harwich Town Engineer
Gerard Scannell
December 14, 2020