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December 8, 2022
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Traffic study offers solutions to speeding
Santa and his helpers
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Charlotte’s selectboard is taking steps at remedying a pervasive speeding problem that residents say has been an issue in the town for years. In October, a group of 36 residents along Greenbush Road demanded action by filing a petition that “implores the Select Board to act to enforce the traffic laws on our street in response to ongoing community concern about the challenges dangerous drivers pose to safe automotive, pedestrian and bicycle travel within our neighborhood.” “It seems to have really hit a crescendo recently, since the pandemic began and there’s much higher traffic coming through the roads in Vermont with our population changes and our travel increases,” said Carla Hunter, a
Greenbush Road resident. “Please, we need meaningful change,” she said. “We need action.” The selectboard responded by asking the Chittenden County Regional Planning Commission to conduct a traffic-calming study on Greenbush Road. The study provided a slew of options for town officials to consider, including speed humps, road splitters, changing the fog lines and installing speed feedback radar signs along different points on the road to encourage drivers to slow down. While most residents expressed support for the propositions, another Greenbush resident, Chris Davis, reminded the selectboard that regardless of these options, with no police force in Charlotte, drivers generally face See TRAFFIC on page 13
County’s new communications union district plots next steps COREY MCDONALD STAFF WRITER
Work has begun on the formation of a Chittenden County Communications Union District,
approved by voters in five towns in November, with the goal of expanding the county’s fiber network to its participating towns in a county largely dominated by cable.
Voters in Shelburne, South Burlington, Essex, Essex Junction and Williston overwhelmingly approved the creation of a communications union district, the state mechanism to expand and,
in some cases, introduce highspeed fiber-optic internet connections while addressing pockets of underserved areas that the private market has so far failed to address. “There’s an economy of scale
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of working with many communities together ... in terms of negotiating,” said Robert Fish, the deputy director of the Vermont CommuSee COMMUNICATIONS on page 12
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