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DPW to Replace Sidewalks on Tokeneke Road

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Tokeneke sidewalks will be replaced between Great Hill Road and Cliff Avenue starting Monday, April 5, the Darien Public Works Department announced on Thursday. The replacement project covers about four tenths of a mile (according to Google Maps), starting several hundred feet east of Tokeneke School and ending several hundred feet west of the Darien-Norwalk border at Five Mile River. The project is expected to be done by mid-May, although bad weather could delay completion. A previous sidewalk project installed or replaced sidewalks on Tokeneke Road west of the upcoming project. With completion of this new project, people should be able to walk to downtown Darien all the way from Rowayton, almost entirely over new sidewalks.

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Tokeneke Road Sidewalk Construction Project May Start Monday, Continue About 3 Weeks

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A sidewalk construction project expected to  on Monday, Sept. 17, should result in a pathway that people can use to walk along Tokeneke Road from downtown to the border with Norwalk at Five Mile River, First Selectman Jayme Stevenson announced. The sidewalk would connect downtown to businesses near the Five Mile River, a 1.2 mile distance, according to Google Maps, that takes about 24 minutes (although that’s not a very brisk walk). The construction project, Stevenson said at Monday’s meeting of the Board of Selectman, encompasses “that area between the end of the [downtown] commercial district and underneath I-95 to connect the businesses that are on the south side of I-95.” The work, she said, “is going to begin on [Monday] Sept.

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Sidewalks To Be Installed About 1,000 Yards Along West Side of Hoyt Street

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The Town of Darien will begin installing sidewalks on Hoyt Street (state route 106) from Middlesex Road north to Heather Lane starting on Tuesday, Aug. 9. Work hours will be between 8:30 a.m. and 4:00 p.m. on weekdays. ___________

— an announcement from the Darien Department of Public Works

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Sidewalks will be closed in areas of work while under construction. Darien Police will be on site during work hours for safe passage of pedestrian and vehicular traffic in the areas of construction.

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Town Panel Recommends Long List of Safety Improvements for Walkers, Cyclists

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Darien could make its sidewalks and roads safer for pedestrians and cyclists by adopting a series of improvements, initially near schools and train stations, an ad hoc committee told the Board of Selectmen. In a presentation to the board Monday, the Pedestrian Infrastructure Advisory Committee recommended changes that would make roads safer, but Beth Harmon, chair of the panel, said committee members also wanted to make the streets “healthy, more accessible and enjoyable.” The committee suggested that the town make some inexpensive, easier improvements sooner — such as painting new crosswalks at specific spots and adding signs and bicycle lane markers. For the longer term, the committee recommended a long list of improvements, including lighting under bridges, building new sidewalks or extending them, adding “bollards” (posts, to which chains could be added to provide barriers for pedestrians to prevent them from walking on streets at unsafe spots; the word is also used for plastic post-like signs that can be placed temporarily on a street), and other infrastructure improvements. The committee identified a total of 10 “key areas” around town where improvements should be made first — areas within a half-mile distance of the town’s seven schools as well as near four train stations (including two New Canaan Branch train stations — Springdale and Talmadge Hill — just beyond the town borders).

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Letter: Pedestrian Advisory Panel to Give Recommendations Dec 14

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To the editor:

The Board of Selectmen of the Town of Darien will be presented with the Pedestrian Infrastructure Advisory Committee’s (PIAC) findings and recommendations for safe passage for Darien pedestrians and cyclists, in a public meeting on Monday, Dec. 14 at 7 p.m. at Town Hall. The event marks another step in highlighting the importance of safe walking and biking on the streets of Darien. The Committee will present a detailed report of its work since June of this year. The work of the Pedestrian Infrastructure Advisory Committee is intended to involve the community in discussions regarding potential high-value improvements to Darien’s existing pedestrian and bicycle infrastructure.

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New Pedestrian Infrastructure Advisory Panel Takes First Steps

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A committee to recommend sidewalk and other projects for pedestrians in town held its first meeting Tuesday, elected a chairman and started researching information to help walkers, cyclists and others to get around town safely and easily. Members of the new Pedestrian Infrastructure Advisory Committee (created on Monday by the Board of Selectmen) will start gathering information on sidewalks in town, proposals for fixing or extending them and other ideas (like additional crosswalks) already proposed. The nine-member panel elected Beth Harmon as its new chairman (she was the only member who offered to take on the position) as well as Ted Hawkins and Pat Morrissey as co-clerks (to keep meeting minutes at alternate meetings). The committee expects to meet on Tuesdays at 7:30 p.m. and perhaps other times as it tries to come up with recommendations for town spending. The Board of Selectmen would like a list of recommendations for where to improve or install new sidewalks or other pedestrian-friendly projects by the last quarter of 2015.