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‘Most Dangerous When the Kids Are Heading to School’: Residents Voice Concerns About Intersection at Farm and Main
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The offset four-way intersection at Farm Road and Main Street confuses drivers about rights-of-way, a problem that’s exacerbated by limited sight lines and creates a hazard for pedestrians seeking to cross it, residents say. Old Norwalk Road’s Samantha Connell told town officials that her kids attend Saxe Middle School as well as New Canaan High School and walk through the intersection for school as well as sports practice and getting into the downtown. Now that sidewalks run to the end of Main Street and then down Old Norwalk Road toward Kiwanis Park, more people are walking at the intersection than ever before, but motor vehicles at the confounding intersection are focused on each other far more than pedestrians, Connell said during a recent meeting of an advisory group on traffic measures. “The people driving through that intersection at certain hours are in a rush, and unfortunately it is most dangerous when the kids are heading to school or coming home from school and for the rush hour after practice,” she said during the Traffic Calming Work Group’s Oct. 18 meeting, held at the New Canaan Police Department.