The following is an ‘Ask The Mayor’ question submitted to TLS, and the Mayor’s response. Email your questions for the Mayor to [email protected].

Question:

Hi,

I’d like to ask you 2 things please:

1) About a big beehive on the School Garden Park parking lot, it’s near the rear entrance to the park hanging down a tree branch. The kids are afraid of going near it. Can you please have them removed?

2) The street lights on School Garden Street. There are 4 poles but only 2 have lights on them. The winter is coming now and it’s starting to get dark early, can you please have JCP&L add another 2 lights to the 2 poles?

Thank you very much!

Response from Mayor Coles:

Good afternoon

I have asked public works to take care of the bee hive

As far as additional lights, we will ask JCP&L. I will also see if we can mount our LED fixtures there instead

Thanks for reaching out

Ray

Question:

Dear Honorable Mayor Coles

Thank you for all that you do to help our city run smoothly. I was wondering if it was possible. Especially in light of the fact that the turn from Route 9 to First Street has been eliminated, would it be possible to make a turn signal allowing turns from Route 9 to North Lake. When the light finally does turn green, there are many cars coming south on Route 9 that make it almost impossible to make the turn. If you could get a turn signal installed, it would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you so much

Marvin

Response from Mayor Coles:

We have asked the DOT to make these changes. We have not heard back from them.

Ray

Question:

Good afternoon Mr. Mayor,

I have been traveling to work every day using East Veterans, Cross and White. I never had a problem making left turns, and traffic flowed smoothly until after Rustic (where the schools are). Now that there is a light, but there is no left signal, it’s harder to make a left from Cross onto White. And traffic gets backlogged all the way to East Veterans as well as all the way to James.

Pertaining to Cross and Prospect: the heavy traffic occurs during morning and afternoon rush hours. I believe a traffic light would cause more problems than now. Perhaps it’s time for a roundabout. In areas with roundabouts and jug handles the flow of traffic is much smoother.

Thank you for reading our requests and taking them seriously.

Response from Mayor Coles:

The county is almost ready to begin the widening of Cross from Augusta to the Jackson border. The light there is temporary until widening is complete.

Ray

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