With gas prices reaching over $4 per gallon, safe pedestrian passage ways are even more important. I love the new sidewalks on Rocky Point Landing Road.
Please leave the residential streets alone. We can't even maintain the sidewalks on 25A with the knocked down trees and weeds, and decorative flags that are no longer around. Lived here over 20 years and walk to 25A from NS Beach with no problem. Lets not look like Nassau County. Lets keep our little town country-rural.
I think the person that wants to leave the residential streets alone must not have small children. Taking our life in our hands is a understatement with a stroller. Walking to town or around town is impossible if not unthinkable when considering the safety aspect.
The sidewalks along Rocky Point Landing road maintain a country feel and give the kids a way to travel to school with out burning an ounce of fossil fuel.
Please consider the children and all of our future when determining the feasiblility of sidewalks. We need to think ahead. Safety, conservation and health should be paramount.
I agree with the safety concerns. I have a small child and we like to walk to the beach. But because of the hills and blind spots I am always fearful of a car hitting us. I understand the country-rural desire but I think that what we really have are streets crowded with parked cars, dangerous blind spots and ugly makeshift curbs.
Rather than put them everywhere, it might be a good idea to begin with critical "feeder" streets. This would bring safety to the neighborhood. An idea might be to create "paths" instead of sidwalks. If done with some creativity we could maintain the country-rural feel.
Having said all that, who is paying for them? How are they going to be maintained? What would be the winter snow rules? Are the citizens of RP ready to comply?
(by the way - I would like to address the park situation in RP - it is unacceptable - the civic should show up at the Miner playground and other places where children, of all ages, are and find out what the community is really looking for as far as playground facilities)
Robert Miner park will soon undergo a renovation. Councilwoman Bonner and our new Commissioner of Parks, Ed Morris, have put together a renovation plan. Come to the next Civic Meeting for an update.
There is an interesting interview in the Sunday New York Times. The former mayor of Bogota, Columbia, Enrique Peñalosa, talks about the importance of building sidewalks! Sidewalks are democracy!
..."but there are many suburbs where there are no sidewalks, which is a very bad sign of a lack of respect for human dignity. People don’t even question it." "If democracy is to prevail, public good must prevail over private interests. The question is: would the majority of people be happier with a public waterfront on the Long Island Sound or not? All children should have access to waterfronts without being members of a country club."...
I am not suggesting changing our current beach rights, but maybe there is something to - All children, young and old, should be able to walk in Rocky Point without worrying about being hit by a car -
I’d like to echo a few of the comments that were well said, as well as bring up a few new ones.
Above there are 10 or so comments in favor of adding sidewalks to a few of our roads (perhaps Hallock, Broadway, King and on the east side Harding-Oden-Aloma-Friendship) And about one comment of someone worried that we would look like Nassau . That comment I’ve heard a few times. But I can’t see how our windy hilly roads with sidewalks added could look like Nassau . Plus as someone said, if it’s done creatively, it can look good.
Looks aside, it’s hard to deny the safety need for them. Our roads are narrow and our density continues to increase. This is something that will need to happen eventually if not soon.
With that said lets consider timing. The state is mandating that soon we’ll need to end our storm water runoff into the Long Island sound. Hallock, Broadway and Friendship are big runoff areas for storm water and therefore led to the closing of area beaches many times last year. When the sidewalk was added to Lower Rocky Point Rd additional storm drains were added. Since we will soon be adding additional storm drains to Hallock, Broadway and Friendship, it seems like the timing is there to couple the projects and save money while doing a better job all in all.
Let’s definitely take steps forward to studying this further.
Tearing down trees to put sidewalks will ruin the country atmosphere. Why is everyone so quick to put sidewalks, would you like them in front of YOUR house???I have been here 35 yrs., if I wanted sidewalks I would have stayed in Nassau that now looks like Queens!!
I agree about the Nassau comment with sidewalks. Yes, it's nice on the busier roads like 25A but NOT on residential streets. If sidewalks come in here that means they are going to destroy all our front lawns. Do you think the streets will be safer? Nope. Our issue is not sidewalks in the residential areas. It's with the DRIVERS driving up and down these roads with wanton disregard for pedestrians.
We could use MORE stop signs and how about some speed bumps? I, for one, would really appreciate a serious crack down on the reckless driving.
No sidewalks. I like the rural feel that we have here. RP is one of the last few places that looks like LI used to look many years ago.
I think if we had sidewalks on the side streets it wouldn't be such a danger for our children to have to walk to their bus stop. So those of you that think it's nice to leave the rural look must not be concerned with the safety of our young ones, apparently neither is the Rocky Point Board of Education.
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I think it is a wonderful idea.
With gas prices reaching over $4 per gallon, safe pedestrian passage ways are even more important. I love the new sidewalks on Rocky Point Landing Road.
I'd love to be able to walk to downtown safely from the North Shore Beach area.
Do you mean adding sidewalks and curbs? How would that be paid for? Who sould be responsible for maintaining them?
Please leave the residential streets alone. We can't even maintain the sidewalks on 25A with the knocked down trees and weeds, and decorative flags that are no longer around. Lived here over 20 years and walk to 25A from NS Beach with no problem. Lets not look like Nassau County. Lets keep our little town country-rural.
I think the person that wants to leave the residential streets alone must not have small children. Taking our life in our hands is a understatement with a stroller. Walking to town or around town is impossible if not unthinkable when considering the safety aspect.
The sidewalks along Rocky Point Landing road maintain a country feel and give the kids a way to travel to school with out burning an ounce of fossil fuel.
Please consider the children and all of our future when determining the feasiblility of sidewalks. We need to think ahead. Safety, conservation and health should be paramount.
I agree with the safety concerns. I have a small child and we like to walk to the beach. But because of the hills and blind spots I am always fearful of a car hitting us. I understand the country-rural desire but I think that what we really have are streets crowded with parked cars, dangerous blind spots and ugly makeshift curbs.
Rather than put them everywhere, it might be a good idea to begin with critical "feeder" streets. This would bring safety to the neighborhood. An idea might be to create "paths" instead of sidwalks. If done with some creativity we could maintain the country-rural feel.
Having said all that, who is paying for them? How are they going to be maintained? What would be the winter snow rules? Are the citizens of RP ready to comply?
(by the way - I would like to address the park situation in RP - it is unacceptable - the civic should show up at the Miner playground and other places where children, of all ages, are and find out what the community is really looking for as far as playground facilities)
Robert Miner park will soon undergo a renovation. Councilwoman Bonner and our new Commissioner of Parks, Ed Morris, have put together a renovation plan. Come to the next Civic Meeting for an update.
Thank you for the update on the parks. I am not able to make the civic meetings but I look farawrd to further updates.
There is an interesting interview in the Sunday New York Times. The former mayor of Bogota, Columbia, Enrique Peñalosa, talks about the importance of building sidewalks! Sidewalks are democracy!
..."but there are many suburbs where there are no sidewalks, which is a very bad sign of a lack of respect for human dignity. People don’t even question it." "If democracy is to prevail, public good must prevail over private interests. The question is: would the majority of people be happier with a public waterfront on the Long Island Sound or not? All children should have access to waterfronts without being members of a country club."...
I am not suggesting changing our current beach rights, but maybe there is something to - All children, young and old, should be able to walk in Rocky Point without worrying about being hit by a car -
I’d like to echo a few of the comments that were well said, as well as bring up a few new ones.
Above there are 10 or so comments in favor of adding sidewalks to a few of our roads (perhaps Hallock, Broadway, King and on the east side Harding-Oden-Aloma-Friendship) And about one comment of someone worried that we would look like Nassau . That comment I’ve heard a few times. But I can’t see how our windy hilly roads with sidewalks added could look like Nassau . Plus as someone said, if it’s done creatively, it can look good.
Looks aside, it’s hard to deny the safety need for them. Our roads are narrow and our density continues to increase. This is something that will need to happen eventually if not soon.
With that said lets consider timing. The state is mandating that soon we’ll need to end our storm water runoff into the Long Island sound. Hallock, Broadway and Friendship are big runoff areas for storm water and therefore led to the closing of area beaches many times last year. When the sidewalk was added to Lower Rocky Point Rd additional storm drains were added. Since we will soon be adding additional storm drains to Hallock, Broadway and Friendship, it seems like the timing is there to couple the projects and save money while doing a better job all in all.
Let’s definitely take steps forward to studying this further.
Tearing down trees to put sidewalks will ruin the country atmosphere. Why is everyone so quick to put sidewalks, would you like them in front of YOUR house???I have been here 35 yrs., if I wanted sidewalks I would have stayed in Nassau that now looks like Queens!!
I agree about the Nassau comment with sidewalks. Yes, it's nice on the busier roads like 25A but NOT on residential streets. If sidewalks come in here that means they are going to destroy all our front lawns. Do you think the streets will be safer? Nope. Our issue is not sidewalks in the residential areas. It's with the DRIVERS driving up and down these roads with wanton disregard for pedestrians.
We could use MORE stop signs and how about some speed bumps? I, for one, would really appreciate a serious crack down on the reckless driving.
No sidewalks. I like the rural feel that we have here. RP is one of the last few places that looks like LI used to look many years ago.
I think if we had sidewalks on the side streets it wouldn't be such a danger for our children to have to walk to their bus stop. So those of you that think it's nice to leave the rural look must not be concerned with the safety of our young ones, apparently neither is the Rocky Point Board of Education.
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