Jason Wang, a Duffy dad and board member of Bike West Hartford, will be presenting at tomorrow’s Town Council meeting. BWH is asking the town to immediately implement quick-build traffic calming infrastructure, including curb extensions and more raised crosswalks. BWH believes that the highest priority areas should be school zones adjacent to the most dangerous roads in town.

Unfortunately, Sedgwick Road is one of these extremely dangerous roads serving our schools. Every day we continue to witness extreme speeding, drivers ignoring crossing guards, rolling “stops” through active crosswalks, and other scary behavior. After years of warnings to the town, a member of our community, Anne Rapkin, was killed last year. She died just a few blocks away from Sedgwick Middle School.

Curb extensions and raised crosswalks are proven, inexpensive infrastructure changes that we know can make our routes to school safer now. Not in six months. Not in two years. We must make our neighborhood safer NOW. BWH believes that our children and families deserve this.

Please join BWH tomorrow, March 25 at 7:25 PM in room 314 at Town Hall to advocate for quick-build solutions that will make our community safer. BWH has only been allocated five minutes to make our argument to the Council. A show of solidarity from Duffy will drive the message home.

More information about the event can be found here: https://bikewesthartford.org/a-call-to-action-quick-builds-for-road-safety/

If you share our concerns but can’t make it to the event, please consider emailing to express your support for quick-build infrastructure, including curb extensions and raised crosswalks, to our town leaders:

Towncouncil@westhartford.ct.gov

Townmanager@westhartford.ct.gov

Thank you

From Bike West Hartford Board Members and Duffy Parents: Jason Wang, Tom Martin, and Richelle Efland