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 Mayor Ray

Know it’s premature but everything takes forever so maybe bringing this up now you can start working on the solution.

When the light goes live at oak and the 9 the backup of cars going southbound will make it very difficult to get out and make a left on the 9 out of developments Brentwood sterling forest sterling place.

A partial solution would be to make a box with xxxx and signage not to block the box( haha who would listen anyways!)

Thanks for all ur help.

Response from Mayor Coles:

I think it’s a good idea and will see if the state will allow the box to be pot on Rt 9

We have a similar situation at Chestnut & New Hampshire. I’m told the box as well as the sign that says you will be ticketed if you block the box has helped

Thanks for the suggestion

Ray

Question:

Dear mayor,

I hope this letter finds you well. Thank you for everything you do for us.

i have been reading the traffic light timing related questions recently all the back and forth of changing this intersections timing and that intersections timing and it bothered me why are we still stuck in the past calculating and changing the timing manually when there is a system like the NoTraffic that does it all in real time

the NoTraffic is a cloud based system that uses data from surrounding intersections to compute the timing for each red/green light.

the NoTraffic system has been proven in real world tests (it was installed in a couple of places in the USA already) to save up to 40% of time wasted by traffic lights. it saves 20% greenhouse gases and it can prioritize emergency vehicles… the benefits are numerous.

thank you,
a frustrated citizen

Response from Mayor Coles:

I will ask our engineers to look into it. I am not familiar with it

Thanks for the suggestion

Ray

Question:

Hi Mayor Coles,

I hope this email finds you and your family healthy and well.

Last September I sent in a request to fix bad roads resulting from the Water Companies upgrade project on James Street near Cross Street and on James Street driving over the railroad tracks near Williams St. You replied that the paving was a 2 part job and after the second time it will be paved smoothly. I was a little skeptical but I am happy to say that both have been corrected.

Thank you for following through and making sure our roads are paved properly to avoid any harm to people and/or property.

Thank you,
Debbie Rex

Response from Mayor Coles:

I am happy to hear the system worked the way it was supposed to.

Thanks for letting me know

Ray

Question:

What is the plan for easing up the pine street traffic? Is there any intention of making the streets “no parking” so that there can be adequate lanes, turning lanes etc? I understand that we keep talking about opening vine, but it’s not going to do enough to help the problem. It seems that we have to create more lanes.

Response from Mayor Coles:

Good afternoon. We have engineering looking into a partial widening of Pine St. I hadn’t responded because I was waiting for them to get back to me.

Ray

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