[W1SMH] Founders Day

[RayCord]

Hello all
First of al thank you for all your hard work before, during and after Founders Day.
A special thanks to those who started early with setup and stayed late to empty the parking lots and
Put the equipment away, it is truly appreciated.
While it is still fresh in your mind, We would like to receive feedback on what went right and what needs to be improved upon.
Initial discussions indicate that turning both drive ways into one way worked well with the exception of accommodating the larger trailers coming off the field and unable to make the turn onto Seminary Way.
The other problem that developed was the fact that pedistrians were pushing the walk button and stopping traffic  on west mains st. Which was causing gridlock at the NHS driveway..
I would also like to receive some feedback from the NPD (Lt. Jackson) as to what they experienced in the Center of Town as to whether the Pedestrian use of the crosswalk Stop light was creating gaps in the flow that reduced the Thruput or was the Center maxed out anyway and the crosswalk signal only provided safe pedestrian crossing.
The only thing that I saw as a negative with the gridlock is that the eastbound traffic wasn't stopped far enough back from the drive way to allow left turn (westbound) traffic to exit. Officer Francis recognized this problem and stepped in to correct it by making the driveway a two man operation.One to control Eatbound and Left Turn, the second to control westbound. There was no problem with people trying to turn into the NHS Driveway from either East or West bound West Main St.or trying to turn it to the HAY School driveway by the old Bank of America.
As I said if anyone has any ideas as to how to improve the traffic flow we are open to ideas
Again THANK YOU for your help
Have a great summer 
Ray Cord 
Deputy Director 
Norton EMA


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