First Selectman Jayme Stevenson said she’d like to fix a safety problem for commuters walking past a small storage building at the Noroton Heights Train Station, but it doesn’t look easy.
The building, several hundred feet to the east of Darien EMS-Post 53 on the south side of the station, is in the midst of station parking lots on either side of it. Commuters going to and from the station platform walk around it on a sloped driveway they share with passing vehicles.
The building close to the center of the south side of the Noroton Heights Train Station grounds leaves enough room for a driveway between different parts of the parking lot.
At a recent meeting of the Connecticut Rail Commuter Council held in Darien Town Hall, a Stamford woman asked the officials about the spot.
Esther Giordano of Stamford said she was asking on behalf of a colleague at work who leaves from the Noroton Heights station.
“It’s incredibly dangerous walking up to the lot at Post 53,” her colleague wrote in a note Giordano read at the meeting. “It’s very narrow, with cars speeding by in both directions.”
Giordano asked what could be done to make it safer to walk in that spot. Stevenson, who was also at the meeting, said she could talk about the problem.
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It's easy to imagine that this driveway, without sidewalks and with a slope, is more dangerous on an icy winter morning.
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With the building there, and a passage down to the basement on the side, there isn't room for a sidewalk next to the structure itself, without removing a lane from the driveway.
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To the right, as you look east, up the slope, there are trees galore. To the left, along with the building itself, is an outdoor storage area. It appears railroad supplies (or junk) is kept there.