KINGSTON – The portable speed bumps installed by the City of Kingston last year at Rondout Gardens and Colonial Gardens housing projects downtown, cannot be managed by the municipality, just yet.
The matter of the movable speed bumps got bumped back to committee, at the Common Council meeting last week. Officials were concerned about liability, and other issues.
The resolution called for Kingston to manage the speed bumps, rather than the Kingston Housing Authority, which currently has that responsibility.
Majority leader Rennie Scott-Childress said that the council members all support measures to protect the children playing in these developments, and pedestrians in general, but that the Kingston Housing Authority did not communicate with the officials soon enough to answer questions.
“I think we might be able to discuss even better solutions, such as perhaps putting in some kind of electronic speed monitoring device, a permanent one, at both of these locales. We could do something effective in this bad situation,” Scott-Childress said. “These two areas were very poorly designed, and I don’t think we fix the situation by adding simply a Band-Aid.”
Details will be hammered out at the next Public Safety Committee meeting.
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