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Text Box: MAYOR PRODS COUNCIL TO GET STREET REPAIR PROJECT GOING By Bill Turque Mayor Debbie Beers said at the Sept. 10 town council meeting that the town needs to get on with the planned street repairs if it hopes to have a maximum amount of time in 2008 for paving. She asked Town Council members Robin Kogelnik and Steve Matney to collaborate on a strategic plan for the repairs, including a list of projects by priority. "The object is to move things along," said the mayor. "We've been talking for the better part of a year and haven't finalized the engineering part. Nothing has really been going forward." The laying of asphalt is seasonal work, she pointed out, virtually impossible to do between December and March. She wants to have an engineering plan in place by late January, and a bid package prepared by late February so that the town could

Text Box: COUNTY TO INVESTIGATE TRAFFIC IN RESPONSE TO TOWN PETITION By Carlotta Anderson The county plans to conduct “an updated investigation of traffic operations and pedestrian activity” in response to the petition signed by 66 Glen Echo residents asking for a safer crossing of MacArthur Blvd. Arthur Holmes, Jr., Director of the Department of Public Works and Transportation, wrote on Sept. 12 that the purpose of the investigation would be to determine if any additional traffic control devices should be installed. He maintained, however, that in the past the existing signing and markings at the Princeton Ave. crossing point were found to be “appropriate” and that a recent visit found them to be “visible and in good condition.” He noted that one of the westbound signs noting that vehicles were approaching a pedestrian crossing would be moved to a more conspicuous location “to further improve sight distance.” The petition, sent in late July to officials at his department as well as to police and to Councilmember Roger Berliner’s office, requested the installation of a flashing warning light to alert drivers to the crosswalk. It claimed that the crossing is dangerous, that drivers often don’t stop for pedestrians, and that it is used by schoolchildren and residents wishing to shop at Glen Echo Shopping Center or attend the Church of the Redeemer. Mr. Holmes wrote that the decision to install traffic

TOWN HALLOWEEN PARTY

Wednesday, October 31

5:30-6:30 p.m.

Glen Echo Town Hall