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Little
Falls Task Force
4 February 2001 Meeting
The Little Falls
Task Force met on 4 February to discuss how to proceed with the Little
Falls project. The twelve Williamsburg neighbors who attended the meeting
expressed strong support for the following:
- Creation of landscaped median strips, as wide as possible, in the
block between the Williamsburg Circle and Ohio, with other median
strips in the block between Nottingham Street and the intersection
of Little Falls and Yorktown. Benefits of a median: visually narrowing
the street; providing a safe haven for pedestrians as they cross the
street; beautifying the neighborhood with much-needed natural landscaping.
Most task force members favored some cut-outs (i.e., one for the Church
entrance and one for Williamsburg shopping center).
- Raised crosswalks at the intersection of Little Falls and Ohio (like
the one near Westover Library)
- Painting parking lanes along Little Falls
- Making the lighted school zone speed limit 20 MPH (vice 25, as it
is now)
- Investigating how we might go about getting the County to recategorize
Little Falls Road, in order to adopt measures (such as traffic circles)
that we are not allowed at present.
There was support,
but not unanimous, for:
- Nubs, as long as these included trees, to alert drivers. Several
Task Force members indicated the need for a nub opposite Lexington,
in order to make clear that the road was transitionng from two-lanes
in each direction on Yorktown to one lane in each direction on Little
Falls.
- A mid-block, raised crosswalk (as long as there were blinking lights
on Sunday).
The group did not
support speed bumps.
Three members of
the Task Force agreed to meet with staff from Nottingham Elementary
to tell them of our project, find out more about the Nottingham construction
project, and determine how we might help each other achieve common goals.
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