Thank you for your paper’s continued terrific coverage of the Cranbury Road sidewalk project, including the September 12 letter from 17 signatories identifying themselves as “a group of Cranbury Road residents who have been advocating for sidewalks.”
I write to heartily support their practical, affordable, simple good sense: “a meandering sidewalk … with a small buffer to the roadway,” though I would double that by suggesting a sidewalk on both sides of the road.
I attended almost all of the meetings on the project and am an avid cyclist and runner. I was stunned, as was most of the audience, at the options evaluated by the consultants at the August 13 public meeting. These leaned heavily towards bike lanes, which, though nice, are bigger and have grading issues and are tricky to fit in those tight spaces.
Many in the audience spoke up at the meeting: “What about a simple sidewalk with a buffer?” The simple, practical solution so obvious to the “Cranbury Road residents” would, I think appeal to most who regularly walk, bike, and drive on that road. No matter what the self-described professionals might dream of building, how about we just put in a nice sidewalk that the people who actually live there want? On both sides.
Henry Murphy
Hereford Drive, West Windsor
