W. Miller Street Improvement Update!!!

Friends & Neighbors ~

We learned today that the Salisbury City Engineers are just finishing up the designs for W. Miller Street. Remember that the plan, under the Fit Community Grant that Salisbury was awarded last year, was to install a crosswalk across N. Main St. at Miller St. and to install new sidewalks down W. Miller St. to N. Jackson St. to allow our neighborhood better walking access to our City Park and Hurley Park.

We hear the goal is to get the construction underway in May!!! HOORAY!!!

The City would like to hold a neighborhood meeting in April to explain the changes , especially for those who live on W. Miller who will be most impacted during construction. If you have an opinion about what day of the week is generally best to ensure the best attendance, we encourage you to pass it along to the Old North Salisbury Association. You can leave a comment after this posting or email us at oldnorthsalisbury@gmail.com.

Since Tuesdays are the City's City Council and Planning Board days, we should avoid that day if we can. We will probably suggest a Monday evening in April in order to give folks time to get it on their calendar.

This work is the first physical improvement to come out of the North Main Small Area Improvement Plan that many of our neighborhood resident worked very hard to compile for the City and was approved in July 2007! In addition to the crosswalk/sidewalk we should expect W. Miller St. to be narrower and come to a T-stop instead of the sweeping curves at Jackson St. that do not encourage pedestrian speed traffic. There should also be a planting strip. (and we are really crossing our fingers that the plan includes pedestrian level lighting!)
 

Please make every effort to attend this meeting. Again, if you have a preference of meeting days, let us know. When we hear the confirmed date, we will post it here and on our calendar below, as well as via a direct emailing to all our members.

Thanks to all, as always, for your commitment to making this great downtown neighborhood the best!