Another issue on Monday’s Borough Council Agenda was a check-in with Police Chief William Parenti on planned installation of traffic signs for the 113 uncontrolled intersections throughout the Borough.
Chief Parenti told the Council that rectifying this problem has been on his To-Do list since 2004, when he and then Traffic Safety Officer Michael Fahs identified it as a growing issue due to increased vehicular traffic throughout the Borough.
Parenti said he and Fahs determined, at that time, that it would cost about $6,000 to perform the necessary data-collection on accident rates and number of cars at each intersection, purchase and install the signs to “eliminate all uncontrolled intersections.”
But despite budget requests for the project in 2004, 2005 and 2006, funding was not budgeted until this year, 2007.
Borough Administrator Dave Hollod informed the Borough Council that all 113 intersections are listed in three draft ordinances covering stop signs, yield signs and through streets. Parenti explained that data collection will start soon, and the ordinances, with the supporting data, will then go to the NJ Department of Transportation for review and approval before the signs can actually be ordered and installed.
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