To the Editor:
Walk Bike Princeton thanks Princeton Future for organizing a Community Walk on March 21 in the downtown area. More than 40 participants walked on Nassau Street, Moore Street, Wiggins Street, and Witherspoon Street, on the way exchanging their experiences of traffic safety and discussing ways to make especially the intersections safer for those who walk or bike while making it less fraught for drivers.
To make sure that everyone was heard, we collected their written suggestions into a report which is posted on Walk Bike Princeton’s website.
The participants in the walk were astute observers who offered a series of good practicable suggestions, including ways to calm traffic on the residential Hamilton-Wiggins corridor, and how to increase the safety of the ingress of Sylvia Beach Way behind the public library; a pedestrian died after being struck by a car driver at this location.
If you are someone who walks, bikes, or drives along these streets, Walk Bike Princeton welcomes your feedback on the report. Walk Bike Princeton urges the town’s decisionmakers to heed the residents’ suggestions. While most of us are not traffic engineers, we live here, use the streets, and have a local and deep experiential expertise that a consultant brought in from elsewhere would lack.