The village blocked off several parking spots on Main Street just east of Burden to see if it improved sight lines.
Twin Lakes’ experiment to improve the Main Street-Burden Avenue intersection without adding a stop sign got positive reviews last week.
Citizens and the police department had expressed that sight lines at the intersection were difficult, causing cars to have to creep out into traffic or worse yet just gun it to make a turn onto Main from Burden. As a result the intersection has seen more than its share of crashes and near misses. There is no stop sign on Main, but there is at Burden.
Last month, police Chief Dale Racer proposed adding a stop sign on Main at the intersection but the Village Board balked and brainstormed other possible solutions. One was eliminating some of the diagonal parking on Main to the east of the the intersection to see if it improved sight lines. As a temporary measure, the village but barricades in the first few parking spots.
The consensus at last Monday’s Committee of the Whole meeting seemed to be that blocking the spots has helped.
“Seems like it is working,” village President Howard Skinner said of the experiment. Skinner’s car repair business is located at the Burden and Main intersection.
The village may consider whether to make the temporary parking elimination permanent at the next meeting, Skinner said.
