The Wellsville Village Board offered a lukewarm reception to a planning board proposal to create a new traffic pattern involving new one-way streets downtown. Trustee Mike Roeske relayed the information. While the Board had maps and an agenda not routinely offered to the media or public...this is what (we think) we know:
The Planning Board wants to enhance parking. It's a recycled plan offered by former town councilman Tim Aiken almost two decades ago. The plan calls for new one-way streets that would push traffic behind the Howe Library in a single director toward North Main Street. The goal for that section would to created diagonal parking on both sides, creating more spaces. It's a little more complicated on Park Avenue around Giant Food Mart. Two-way traffic would continue down lower West Fassett, moving one-way toward Giant. Then there is some one-way flow down Gabby Hayes. Sorry, without the maps the Board viewed it can become confusing.
Police Chief Tim O'Grady expressed a number of concerns and since the primary six-way intersection of Genesee Parkway, Madison and Park Avenue falls in the middle of a state DOT controlled intersection...well, everyone admitted...that's a whole new issue.
The Board took no action and said more research and more solid answers were needed first.
