New Canaan Seeks State Approval for Main Street Crosswalk

 

New Canaan is seeking state approval for a crosswalk that would run across Main Street from beside the driveway to the Town Hall parking lot. Designed to ease foot traffic and improve safety near a hairy downtown intersection, officials are hoping the proposed crosswalk gets a nod from the Connecticut Department of Transportation prior to the newly renovated Town Hall’s reopening next Spring. Michael Pastore, director of the New Canaan Department of Public Works, said most people cross Main just at that section anyway. “Most people going to the restaurants and shops cross there, and that [proposed crosswalk] is up in the air, the DOT is having a hard time with it,” he said. The state likely requires a fuller traffic plan for the entire area to green light the proposed crosswalk—which would run cross Main from the south side of the Town Hall driveway, Pastore said.

New Canaan Schools, Town Hall Delay Openings Thursday

With temperatures dropping to the mid-teens overnight following a day of heavy snow and freezing rain that coated New Canaan in ice, Public Schools are on a 90-minute delay this morning. New Canaan High School and Saxe (7th & 8th Grade) will open at 9am. 5th and 6th Graders at Saxe will start at 9:50 am, while South School will open at 9:45.  East and West will open at 10:35am. Town officials are also delaying the opening of Town Hall (that is, the offices at the police department, Irwin Park and over by Walter Stewart’s) to 9:30 a.m. Thursday.