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Massena town scraps parking idea, considers adding rumble strips, signs

Posted 10/16/14

By ANDY GARDNER MASSENA -- An idea to reconfigure parking at the town hall was scrapped and the town is now looking at adding rumble strips and new signs. The board learned on Wednesday that widening …

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Massena town scraps parking idea, considers adding rumble strips, signs

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By ANDY GARDNER

MASSENA -- An idea to reconfigure parking at the town hall was scrapped and the town is now looking at adding rumble strips and new signs.

The board learned on Wednesday that widening parking spaces and putting them at an angle would reduce the number of cars it can accommodate from 36 to 19.

“There’s no way we can afford to lose that many spaces,” Councilman Tom Miller said.

Town Supervisor Joseph Gray said in the spring, the board will look at installing rumble strips, enforcing one-way traffic and putting up more distinct signage.

Town Bookkeeper Nancy Fregoe said whoever painted the parking lines when the parking lot was redone made them too small.

“Some how or other when they redid the parking lot … the spots shrunk,” she said.

The board last week looked at changing the parking arrangement because Town Clerk Georgette Davis polled 11 town employees to see if their cars had ever been hit, and nine said yes. In one case, a worker’s car had been hit five times.

Right now parking is perpendicular and traffic often flows both ways in the lot.