The Woodstock group tasked with street safety has made several significant recommendations to improve pedestrians, motor vehicles and bicyclists’ ability to coexist. The Complete Streets Committee has updated the town board on its progress.

How extensive is Woodstock’s problem?

“We’ve had 39 cars going off the road. These cars have hit trees, utility poles. They’ve ended up in ditches, they’ve rolled over,” Complete Streets Committee member Howard Cohen said. “Most of the reports don’t speak to speeding, but I’ve never lived in a town where so many cars are going off the road. And if you obey the speed limits, you’re not going off the road. So this is one problem we feel that we have is speeding outside of town. We’ve had 30 cars connecting with deer, which again, we all have to drive ca

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