Looking ahead to the problem of summer traffic, David and Stacey Brodsky of Wainscott have a plan that they believe will alleviate the burden created by cars using some of the hamlet’s back roads to bypass Montauk Highway.
They first discussed it at a Wainscott Citizens Advisory Committee meeting last summer and have since met with four of the five East Hampton Town Board members and the superintendent of highways, Stephen Lynch, to work on a plan to roll out four changes before Memorial Day. On Saturday they again presented their suggestions at a meeting of the Wainscott Citizens Advisory Committee.
The couple discussed four intersections: Wainscott Main Street and Wainscott Hollow Road, Wainscott Main Street and Beach Lane, Sayre’s Path and Wainscott Stone Road, and Wainscott Stone Road and Wainscott Northwest Road.
At each, their proposal centered around some combination of adding stop signs, extending sidewalks, and adding crosswalks to increase safety. Their proposal did not include speed bumps, which they argued “are not really a viable suggestion” because of concerns about liability.
After a discussion about speed bumps at the meeting, however, some, including Deputy Supervisor Cate Rogers, began to express tentative support for a speed bump pilot program that might be similar to one undertaken in Sagaponack Village. Supporters of speed bumps in Wainscott said Sagaponack was “thrilled” with the result of its pilot program.
However, to move the process forward, Ms. Rogers encouraged the Brodskys to choose a time slot to present their proposal in front of the full town board. In other news from the meeting, Hersey Eggington stepped into his new role as chairman of the committee, and laid out his desire to keep committee meetings to fewer than two hours long.
“I have anticipated this day with some trepidation, in part because of the masterful job of my predecessor,” he said, referring to Carolyn Logan Gluck, who led the committee for four years. “I can tell already this is not an easy job.”