BLUE HILL — Reaction to plans for a roundabout at the prickly intersection of Route 15, South Street and Beech Hill Road was mixed at a public hearing the Maine Department of Transportation held May 23.
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BLUE HILL — Reaction to plans for a roundabout at the prickly intersection of Route 15, South Street and Beech Hill Road was mixed at a public hearing the Maine Department of Transportation held May 23.
Of chief concern for many who spoke was that the roundabout be pedestrian-friendly.
Ken Jacobs asked why the plans didn’t show a crosswalk to Beech Hill Road.
Jacobs said there should also be a crosswalk on South Street so that people could get to Tradewinds and the other businesses.
“We replace what’s already there,” said Atlee Mousseau, DOT project designer. “We don’t put a crosswalk in if there’s no safe landing on the other side of it.”
As part of the roundabout project, the DOT will replace an existing sidewalk, which starts on Main Street and goes up Tenney Hill. But, funding for any new sidewalks would have to come from Blue Hill, said DOT Project Manager Paul MacDonald.
Resident Annie LeBlanc said the intersection has high school students and small children walking as well as people who are shopping.
“There should be four areas where people can cross,” LeBlanc said. “There’s not going to be stopping like there is now. It’s going to be continuous. That’s not a town issue. That’s a state issue.”
News reporter Jennifer Osborn covers the island of Deer Isle-Stonington and the towns of Surry, Blue Hill, Sedgwick and Brooklin. She also writes the Gone Shopping column.
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