Letters

The traffic on Dune Road to Hampton Bays is nonstop in the early mornings of the weekday. I ride my bike on the local roads in the early morning and have for 20 years. I am now passing 35 to 40 cars and trucks on little Wakeman Avenue in a four-block area at 6:30 a.m. It has been busy in the mornings on Lynn Avenue for many years, but now the traffic is Dune Road to Wakeman Avenue.

The town installed a new four-way stop sign, but with no one to monitor it the cars glide through the signs and zoom on their way to … what? Bumper to bumper on Montauk Highway.

I am hoping Traffic Control could sit at the stop signs on Wakeman, and maybe the cars will be forced to stop. It might discourage the pile of traffic on this once-quiet road.

This morning, I drove to Dune Road to see for myself what was going on, and when I got to the light at Ponquogue Beach there was traffic as far as the eye could see coming from Quogue and Westhampton. Are they really saving time by taking Dune Road?

Can anything be done? Maybe stop signs on every corner? On Lynn Avenue, the speed of the cars and trucks is so dangerous to bikers and walkers. There are no stop signs, so it’s a long run of nonstop zooming traffic.

We expect it on Montauk and Sunrise highways, but to encounter this huge traffic on the quiet country road is sad for those who live there and enjoy walking or bike riding in the early morning. The “trade parade” is year round now, too.

Mary Fitzgerald

Hampton Bays