Woodbury Road Gets Some Safety Improvements

The Town of Huntington has officially implemented the first phase of the many future traffic safety improvements on the notorious Woodbury Road.

Woodbury Road runs 2.5 miles from Main Street in Huntington Village to Pulaski Road in Cold Spring Harbor and has been the location of many accidents in the past.

“These measures are an important first step as the Town moves toward implementing the remaining recommendations and making Woodbury Road safer for cars and pedestrians,” Councilwoman Susan Berland said in a statement.

The Town’s Highway department has already made the following improvements:

• Trimmed the trees along the shoulder of the road.
• Upgraded and replaced road signs to improve visibility, including 165 new large signs and larger chevron signs to put more attention on the horizontal curves in the roadway and increase their visibility to approaching vehicles.
• New turn and reverse turn signs to replace curve and reverse curve signs.
• Upgraded signs to Diamond Grade reflectivity and installed new Diamond Grade reflective inserts on channel posts.

These improvements were implemented following a report issued earlier this year by the Town’s consultant, Gibbons, Esposito and Boyce Engineers, P.C. The report findings were discussed at a community meeting in July.

“These were the measures we could implement most quickly while we conduct the additional studies necessary before instituting others,” Supervisor Frank Petrone said. “We believe that each step we take will make Woodbury Road a little safer by prompting motorists to drive slower and more responsibly.”