The town has a traffic ordinance that allows selectmen to prohibit parking.
JAY – Selectmen on Monday will discuss eliminating parking along Main Street from Elm to Otis streets. Board members will also hear an update on state improvements to the roadway that could come as soon as 2005.
The meeting begins at 6 p.m. at the Community Building.
The stretch of road where parking lines are painted on the west side, create narrower travel lanes and cause sight distance difficulty for people exiting driveways.
If improvements to 1.1 miles of Main Street, also known as Route 4, from Bridge Street to Pineau Street in Jay were funded, the road width would be increased to consistent 12-foot travel lanes. Along some places of the project up to 10 feet of land could be taken to make the improvements possible.
One of the concessions the town and state Department of Transportation are discussing is no parking from Elm to Otis streets to lessen land taking impacts and cost of the $4.4 million project.
The town has a traffic ordinance that allows selectmen to prohibit parking.
In other business, selectmen will also consider bids for a tax-required property on Highland Avenue.
As of Wednesday morning, no bids had been submitted Town Manager Ruth Marden said, but there had been a lot of interest. Bids were due at 4 p.m. Friday
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