BETHEL – Maine Department of Transportation officials agreed Monday night to re-examine plans to remedy perceived safety problems at a local intersection based on pedestrian needs.

The state has proposed improvements to the intersection of Parkway and Route 2 using state and federal funds.

Improvements are to include installation of two yellow flashing beacons at the intersection, raised islands to channel traffic flow, and construction of a durable median to shelter Route 2 left turns.

Traffic flows into the four-way intersection from three directions, two of which have two lanes. On one side of the road, there is a pair of business entrances: Crossroads Diner and Deli and Rite-Aid Pharmacy.

After learning that no special provisions were made in the project’s preliminary plans for pedestrian traffic, selectmen Chairman Harry Dresser Jr. and others chided MDOT officials Albert L. Godfrey and James Mansir.

“Perhaps, it was an oversight on the town’s and your part, but there are 255 adolescents who use that intersection,” Dresser said of Gould Academy students who cross the road on a nearly daily basis during school to visit the two businesses.

Bonnie Largess, owner of the diner and deli, also worried about senior citizens and pedestrians trying to cross the intersection to pick up prescriptions at Rite-Aid.

“When I go out to change my sign, I get blown away by the 18-wheelers that go by. There’s no way that they’re going 30 mph,” she said.

Transportation Department officials also discussed installing a rotary at the intersection after George Driscoll broached the suggestion.

“We’re trying roundabouts in a few places, but I do not see this as a proper place. We have to make sure the big trucks could get around it and it would have to be in the right spot,” Mansir said.