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HIGHWAY SAFETY COMMITTEEThe Highway Safety Committee, which is comprised of the Police and Fire Chiefs, Highway Agent,Maintenance Supervisor, Community Planner and a citizen’s representative, exists to promote highway safetythrough the use of road signage, literature, and/or educational media. The Committee accomplishes thismission in two main ways. First, we review all plans submitted to the Planning Board and comment on anyissues that are related to Highway Safety such as road widths, signage, or access and egress points. Second,we review all requests from our residents and employees for such items as speed limit, stop, and yield signs,and other traffic related sign installations.Over the course of the year, we reviewed site plans and submitted applicable comments to the Planning Boardon items such as:• Buttrick Road• Range Road @ Route 111• Sawtelle Road• Grove Street• Devlin Sub Division• Dunkin Donuts• Rockingham RoadThe Committee also reviewed and took action on several other issues such as;• Depot Road Speed Limit• Guard Rail request, North Policy Street• Street Light request Range Road• Street Light and Intersection issues, Lowell Road @ Cobbetts Pond• Golden Brook School Traffic Flow• Traffic Safety issues at Range and Searles Road• Traffic Enforcement, Oriole and Cardinal RoadThe Committee maintains its standard policy of recommending new roads be constructed with a minimumpavement width of twenty-eight (28) feet with curbing and closed drainage systems on all applicableapplications.If anyone has a recommendation or request for a highway safety measure, we encourage them to submit it tous using the “Highway Safety Request Form”, which may be obtained from the Town Administrator’s Officeor email us at hsc@windhamnewhampshire.com. Each request received is reviewed carefully andrecommendations are made to the Board of Selectmen to either approve or deny the request.In closing, I wish to offer the Committee’s continuing appreciation to the residents for their interest andinvolvement in Highway Safety. We are always looking for suggestions to improve the safety of Town roadsand, to this end, welcome your input. I also wish to thank the Board of Selectmen for the support they haveshown the Committee in endorsing many of our recommendations. Finally, I offer my appreciation andgratitude to the members of the Highway Safety Committee for their involvement and commitment to meetingour mission.Respectfully submitted for the Committee,Thomas L. McPherson Jr., Fire Chief/Chair2012 ANNUAL REPORTS 115 TOWN OF WINDHAM, NH