Traffic around Maryland Park tops concerns
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A dual ward meeting in Brandon Wednesday evening focused on pedestrian safety for children near Maryland Park School.
The joint meeting for wards 8 and 10 drew about 70 residents to the Riverview Curling Club to air their concerns about a variety of topics, said Ward 10 Coun. Tyson Tame.
Tame said the meeting was to get ideas from residents and for city administration to collect information.
Coun. Tyson Tame (Ward 10) speaks during a city council meeting on Sept. 2. (Photos by Alex Lambert/The Brandon Sun)
“Residents see things from a different viewpoint. We see things from budgetary lenses, operational lenses, workforce lenses,” he said. “By having a ward meeting, it opens those lines of communication. And a lot of good ideas were talked about (Wednesday) night.”
Student pedestrian safety in front of Maryland Park School at 700 Maryland Ave. took up much of the nearly three-hour meeting.
“Just the challenges around pedestrian movement, traffic flow, some of the systems that have been set up to create as safe an environment as can be,” Tame said.
Ward 8 Coun. Jason Splett said much of his part of the meeting was focused on safety around Ninth Street, particularly for children going to and from school.
Concerns included the flow of traffic and the roundabout where the road intersects with Maryland Avenue, which is also near Maryland Park School and Crocus Plains Regional Secondary School.
“Other issues were the crosswalks from the west side of Ninth Street, moving kids to the east side, and also the sidewalk or walking path on Ninth Street between Richmond and Aberdeen, and just the safety of moving pedestrians or children along that stretch as well,” Splett said.
On the safety front, ramping up enforcement “was definitely on the radar,” he added.
“There was a lot of comments about … disrespectful drivers, ones that aren’t stopping at the crosswalks,” Splett said. “They’re going faster than the speed limit, not stopping at the four-way stops, driving on the wrong side of the road.”
Coun. Jason Splett (Ward 8) listens during the same meeting.
The meeting was scheduled to last only an hour and a half, but there were more people who wanted to talk than expected. The meeting was stopped just before 9:30 p.m. before all topics were discussed.
Tame said southeast drainage was going to be discussed had the meeting not been so long. Instead, an update will go out to residents, possibly through the city’s Facebook page.
“You have a room full of 60 to 70 people who were quite engaged and had a lot to say,” Tame said.
» alambert@brandonsun.com