The agreed on Thursday to perform a study on the impact of installing a traffic signal at the entrance to its proposed Eastern Archdiocese and the eastern entrance to the Church of Annunciation.
Borough Engineer Elliot Sachs recommended that Boswell Engineering, the traffic division of the , and Judd Rocciola, the traffic engineer for the Syriac Orthodox Church, meet to discuss how a traffic light would operate there.
There is currently a traffic light at the eastern entrance to the , but it only operates by pedestrian push-button. Rocciola recommended that it be converted into a full traffic signal if the Syriac Church opened to make the intersection safer.
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The signal would have to be authorized by the Borough Council, and would be paid for by the Syriac Church.
Zoning Board of Adjustment member Pat O'Brien was concerned about who would maintain the light and how it would work with a proposed signal on Abbot Road and Midland Avenue.
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"I'm just not sure that this is such a simple thing," O'Brien said.
The hearing was adjourned until the completion of the study. It's scheduled to continue Oct. 27.
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