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,

Thank you for your efforts in maintaining our town. I would like to offer two suggestions regarding local traffic flow.

First, to ease congestion at the corner of New Hampshire Avenue and Ocean Avenue, I recommend shortening the signal duration for traffic on Ocean Avenue. Currently, the light remains green for a significant amount of time despite low traffic volume from that direction. Shortening this cycle would prevent the substantial buildup of vehicles on New Hampshire Avenue.

Second, I suggest improvements for Clover Street. Expanding it to two lanes while the land remains undeveloped, or adding dedicated left turning lanes at the traffic light and the intersection of Laurel Avenue, would be very beneficial. This would prevent turning vehicles from blocking traffic for the duration of the light cycle.

I would appreciate any assistance you can provide regarding these matters.

Thank you!

Response from Mayor Coles:

Hello There

Thanks for your suggestions. I forwarded them to the county engineer and asked for them to study them.

Thanks

Ray

Question:

Thank you so much for all you do for our town. We are extremely bothered by the new no turns from route nine onto central avenue and Hurley. For those who live at the beginning of central, we are being forced to go to James and come all the way around sunset- at least a 10 minute detour! Also, the traffic on James and sunset is already bad during busy times of the day, this will make things much worse! We are hoping this is just a trial that will be reversed! Please enlighten us.

Response from Mayor Coles:

Good afternoon

We are not happy with this pattern either. We have been working with the state to change it.

Thanks

Ray

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