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Norwalk, Connecticut
Advocacy Items -- Current ACT Positions and Efforts
This page last updated 6/7/08
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Traffic Calming Projects
No undue widening of streets. More lanes bring more traffic
Preserve and promote landscaped traffic islands
Creativity in traffic calming approaches.
Advocate
for funding for comprehensive Traffic Calming/Traffic Management Master Plan
Police presence at select key locations (e.g. -
Norwalk-entry highways and cut-through streets)
Update of -- and adherence to -- the Master Plan of Development
Reinstate the Point System so that habitual speeders
lose their license instead of simply paying fines on tickets
Multi-Departmental (Mayor's Office, Schools, DPW, P+Z, etc.) public
awareness program
Police radar trailers and increased visibility through community policing
Develop Traffic Calming Master Plan that would include traffic management,
bicycle and walkability
Smart Growth and Mixed-Use Development
Reed Putnam Mixed-Use
Smart
Growth
for Norwalk Center and Wall Street.
Support Norwalk Preservation Trust
Committed to use of land along
the Norwalk River and Harbor for people-friendly endeavors
Adoption of the Affordable Housing Task Force's seven
recommendations that it released in March of 2002
Traffic Safety related to Schools
Formation of oversight Committee to help ameliorate hazards related to
school-generated traffic
'Safe Routes to School' grant funds have been approved
for Strawberry Hill Ave. Advocate for funds to be combined with traffic calming
funds, to have a consultant hired to for design and to construct the recommended
devises ASAP. Promote application of SRTS funds for other locations in Norwalk.
Bike lanes and pedestrian walkways
Urban Forestry -- Tree
Advisory Committee is in the process of creating a Tree Management Plan.
The Norwalk Tree Alliance is conducting an inventory of the city trees.
Protection of Parks and Open Space
Litter control -- Enforcement, DPW, Parks and Rec., Neighborhood
Cleanups.
Greenways and continuation of multi-purpose
north-south trail
Bicycle lanes, bicycle racks on trains and buses,
bicycle storage at stations
Improved routes and schedules for buses and trains
Addition of train station in Norwalk
Center as area is revitalized
Explore alternatives to trucks for transporting goods -- like barges
on the waterways and rail for freight
Explore potential for passenger ferries at various locations
Telecommuting, Rideshare and Flexible Work Hours
Use of programs by businesses --
Metropool, etc.
Vehicular Noise and Emissions Control
Support manufacturing -- and use -- of passenger
vehicles and buses that use clean fuel (natural gas, electricity) and do not
exceed size required. No more diesel fuel.
Encourage policy by bus and truck companies that
would require drivers to shut engines off if stopped and idling for more that 3
minutes
and FOI Compliance to Maximize Public Participation
Passage of an Ordinance by the Council that would create an FOI
Advisory Board for Norwalk
City, state and national budgets that fund Calm Traffic pathways
Traffic Calming Projects --
support approval of funding for traffic
calming projects in Capital Budget every year
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