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Repeated Parking on South Avenue Sidewalk Prompts Installation of New Signs

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Two ‘No Parking On Sidewalk’ signs have appeared on a very short stretch of sidewalk in front of the Mobil station on South Avenue, after a resident alerted town officials to the unusual habit of some motorists who parked on it. The approximately 20-foot long stretch of sidewalk between the gas station’s two entrances for cars from South Avenue is differentiated in its brickwork, but is at grade with the adjacent lot that includes fuel pumps. Members of an administrative team that field traffic requests said at a recent team that they received a formal complaint about the practice of some motorists who park there. “I don’t want to put anything in the pedestrian way,” Department of Public Works Assistant Director Tiger Mann said of the situation at a Feb. 23 meeting of the Traffic Calming Work Group.

Public Safety

Fender-Bender at Mobil Station Yields Arrests

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New Canaan police arrested a pair of nonresidents who switched seats in a car after a minor motor vehicle accident downtown, then lied about it. According to police, the man—32 years old, from Eric Street in Bridgeport—was at the wheel of a 2000 Audi just before 5 p.m. on Feb. 4 when it collided in the parking lot at the Mobil station with another car, according to a police report. That vehicle, a 2003 Ford, was being driven by an 18-year-old New Canaan man, police Sgt. Carol Ogrinc said.