NEW LIGHTS AT the North Ferrisburgh intersection of Route 7 with Previous Hole and Stage roads are anticipated to flash this weekend after which change into totally operational someday subsequent week, after mission delays.
Photograph courtesy of VTrans
FERRISBURGH — Work to put in site visitors lights on the North Ferrisburgh intersection of Route 7 and Stage and Previous Hole roads resumed on Wednesday, and the lights might begin flashing as quickly as this weekend and be totally operational by subsequent week.
The mission contractor was again on the job Tuesday and Wednesday, in accordance with a Wednesday e-mail from Company of Transportation Mission Supervisor Taylor Sisson to Ferrisburgh officers and different stakeholders.
“They’re hoping to show the sign on tomorrow and have it working in ‘flash’ by means of the weekend,” Sisson wrote.
That may means “the lights would flash yellow for site visitors persevering with by means of the intersection on Route 7 and flash crimson for left turners off of Route 7 and for Previous Hole Highway and Stage Highway,” he added. “That is our normal protocol for turning on a brand new sign at an intersection that was beforehand unsignalized. The contractor will work to get the sign working totally subsequent week.”
Not for the primary time, work had been delayed this spring. In response to VTrans, utility firms had not gotten round to duties that needed to be accomplished earlier than the lights could possibly be put in.
Sisson wrote this in an April 13 e-mail:
“Sadly, neither Comcast nor Waitsfield Telecom moved their utility traces as of Monday, the eleventh, as we instructed. Waitsfield Telecom was ready for Comcast to maneuver their utility first, however is now going to be assembly with a subcontractor tomorrow to debate some relocation choices to bypass Comcast to get this work carried out extra rapidly.”
The unique goal date was this previous fall. On March 16, 2021, VTrans emailed city officers, stating the company had employed Don Weston Excavating Inc. to do the work, and the corporate was “on the brink of begin work this summer season” and was “optimistic they’ll have the ability to meet their completion date of Oct. 15.”
Sisson this spring cited COVID and uncooperative climate as extra elements within the delays.
The lights are being put in at an intersection {that a} 2019 VTrans examine confirmed is harmful, one thing that Ferrisburgh residents and officers had maintained for years.
VTrans analysis revealed 21 crashes at that intersection within the 5 years main as much as a January 2019 discussion board in Ferrisburgh at which the company pledged to put in site visitors lights or a roundabout, with the vast majority of the 5 dozen residents there favoring lights. Later within the spring of 2019 VTrans agreed to put in alerts.