Community Corner
Oak Bluffs Blinker May Be Back
Think you've seen the last of traffic blinkers on the Edgartown-Vineyard Haven Road? Maybe not.
The blinking traffic lights are gone for good from the Barnes Road intersection with Edgartown-Vineyard Haven Road, superseded by the new roundabout.
But one of the blinkers may be coming back to the main road in a new spot, at the County Road intersection by Jardin Mahoney.
Oak Buffs Highway Superintendent Richard Combra told town selectmen last week that the County Road intersection has seen several serious accidents, including fatalities, in recent years.
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Combra suggested that one of the blinkers removed from the roundabout intersection could be reinstalled at County Road to help calm traffic there.
The other blinker, which Combra described as "vintage," may be donated to the Possible Dreams charity benefit: Oak Bluffs selectman Gregory Coogan said he'd heard there is interest in auctioning the fixtures that for years were the Island's only traffic signals.
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