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Letter from Hamden Mayor, Scott Jackson, to Spring Glen Residents

Dear Neighbor:

As a civic leader in Hamden , I am sure that you are aware how important traffic safety issues are to each of our neighborhoods.  During the campaign, while knocking on doors, traffic speed and volume emerged as the issue of concern mentioned most frequently by Town residents.

For this reason, Representative Peter Villano and I have scheduled a community workshop to discuss traffic calming on January 27, 2010 at 7:00 pm in Thornton Wilder Auditorium at the Miller Library Complex.

The goal of the meeting is not only to discuss traffic calming, but to offer our community stakeholders the opportunity to learn more about the “traffic calming toolbox”, get together in their own neighborhoods or commercial districts, and return to the Town before the passage of the final 2010-2011 budget concrete and specific recommendations for what you would like to see implemented.

We will be joined by several guest speakers experienced in this field who will describe a sound traffic management program as well as the costs and benefits of traffic calming options.  We will distribute to each attendee, and make available on our Town website at www.hamden.com, a Traffic Calming Resource Guide to assist you in subsequent neighborhood-based planning sessions.

We look forward to seeing you at this workshop and encourage you to share this information with others in your community.  Please notify Gerry Tobin in my office at (203) 287-7100 to RSVP for this important event.

Sincerely,
Scott D. Jackson
Mayor