All streets around Main Street have the same traffic safety concerns...all neighboring streets are being used by trucks and vans (and pedestrian vehicles) as cut throughs while driving at high speeds. Why is Irma Avenue being targeted by this ordinace?

This does not make sense especially in light of the proposed Model Blocks program that has been proposed by RFMBPW and the ToNH. They are proposing to increase density on Main Street (thus increasing traffic) and now the ToNH wants to limit which streets can be used by commercial traffic?

Is this town planning in a vacuum?

Yes they are. One wonders where some of these regulations come from? Another anit-business tack when at the same time they say they are promoting redevelopment. My thing is better traffic enforcement on speeders and most of the offenders are cars and SUVS, focus on the real problem there instead of hurting business in a down economy.

I wonder if merchants like Alpers could get their deliveries between 6:00 AM and 8:00AM when trucks could park on Main Street before the town gets really busy. Irma Ave. can be quite congested when tractor trailers park on the sidewalk in midday. This town was not designed for big trucks delivering at busy times. I also see this on Bayles Ave by the Garden Center. Maybe early morning deliveries could be a solution.

The comments speak to an issue raised here before: the preponderance of self-important, self-absorbed, selfish drivers (and residents) in Port Washington. Speeding, double-parking, u-turns, cell phones, horns -- you name it, these swells violate it. You know who you are. Happy holidays. Get a clue.

All one has to do is go to King Kullen at any given time and see our fine upstanding neighbors continually parking in the fire lane as well as the disabled parking area.I saw a driver being told once to move by one our police only to see the officer being told by the driver that she would only be there for a minute or so.

When everyone ignores the law and rules of road etiquette, what is the result? There's not much the police can do with the epidemic of poor roadsmanship so evident in town and throughout the area.We should make all horns sound like Christmas carols; and spikes in the road automatically go up to snag speeders on side streets.

How does the proposed traffic ordinance on Irma Avenue work with the proposed changes to the rezoning and redevloping of Main Street? Has this been considered by the ToNH? Has a traffic study been performed on Main Street, Irma Avenue or any of the neighboring streets that would be affected by such proposals?

Or are all of these proposals just being thrown out to see what sticks and then we have to live with whatever the outcome may be?

I have seen too many cars speed down Irma Ave to catch a LIRR Train I say speed bumps to thwart these reckless drivers.

I think police enforcement of the established rules will solve a great deal of these problems.

Lower speed limits, speed bumps, and / or police enforcement of established rules will not change the original intent of the proposed "no commercial traffic" ordinance. All residential streets, not just Irma Avenue, located off Main Street suffer from trucks, vans and pedetrian vehicles using the streets as cut throughs. If Irma Avenue has a "no commercial traffic" restriction all the adjacent streets will have to handle the overflow.

There has to be an ulterior reason why this ordinance is being proposed as there is no obvious reason to free up Irma Avenue from commercial traffic at the expense of the other streets.

Someone (ie: ToNH, Mr. Pollack) should explain why this ordinance is even being considered.

The no commercial traffic law is working wonders for Sandy Hollow Road, NOT! Trucks looking to cut through from PW Blvd to Shore road use this road and the police have never enforced it. The biggest issue I see about Irma is the parked 18 Wheelers that off load at Alpers.

@ Lee Kalinsky, Sandy Hollow Road is a popular cut-through street I am on it ALL the time with the big trucks --- why is it that the PWPD never enforce the no commercial traffic law on Sandy Hollow Road

This ordinance prohibiting commercial traffice on Irma Avenue is being voted on at tonight's ToNH Town Meeting at 7:30 PM.

So, let's see what "Dina" says and how she votes.