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New Crosswalk Opens Safe Pedestrian Routes for Old Kings Highway Residents

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Residents of Old Kings Highway now have a safe pedestrian walkway that connects them to the new sidewalk near the entrance to Kiwanis Park and, ultimately, Main Street and downtown. The Police Commission at its most recent meeting unanimously approved a new crosswalk across Old Norwalk Road at Old Kings Highway. The crosswalk hooks up to a wooded trail that skirts the edge of Kiwanis Park and lets out near its entrance, where a sidewalk completed last year runs up to Main Street. Police Capt. John DiFederico said at the commission’s Sept. 15 meeting that residents of the area had requested the crosswalk last year.

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New Canaan Eyes Sidewalk Extension on Old Norwalk Road

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By Michael Dinan
Jogger on Old Norwalk Road, New Canaan
[Editor’s Note: The video above, from Feb. 9, shows a jogger making his way down the hill from Main Street toward Kiwanis. The town is looking into extending the (now snow-covered) sidewalk on the opposite side of the road.]

Town officials this week will decide whether to approve $8,600 for engineering work designed to extend the sidewalk that now comes down Old Norwalk Road from Main Street to the bridge over the File Mile River. The sidewalk, which runs along the south side of Old Norwalk Road and ends at the eastern end of the bridge, would be extended down the hill to Kiwanis. On Tuesday, the Board of Selectmen will take up an item on whether to enter a contract with Bridgeport-based Cabezas DeAngelis Engineers for a final survey and sidewalk design.