DelDot officials hold Five Points Intersection workshop

LEWES, Del – If you ask residents in Lewes what they think about the five points intersection– you’re bound to hear something like this:

“It’s really a mess at the five point intersection,” said resident Bruce Krug.

“I’m concerned about the five points intersection it’s extremely unmanageable on a clear day let alone a wet day,” said resident Steve Mumford.

To address concerns Delaware Department of Transportation officials put together a five points study group where members came up with more than 100 ideas to improve the intersection.

“That working group has voted on those ideas that have become official recommendations of the working group so what the public is doing to day is they’re participating in a workshop exercise to tell the working group members what they feel are the highest priorities,” said DelDot supervisor Josh Thomas.

On Monday night a total of 78 recommendations were put on display and residents got a chance to vote on *their* favorite recommendations using stickers.

“The things that I would select as options seem to have the most dots on them and people are voting for which one they want by putting little dots on the board,” said Krug.

Recommendations included creating other methods of public transportation providing more signage in the area, and reducing the speed limit.

“If we could just bring it down maybe 25 or 30 miles an hour just so people can get through the intersection,” said Mumford.

Officials add that it’s critical to hear and respect the public’s opinion, while gaining their support in order to move forward.

“In order to make any improvements we need support we need support from all stakeholders we need support from the community so this is the way of getting their feedback helping us figure out what’s most important but then also building support these are the improvements that you wanted and we are going to try and deliver on those,” Thomas.

Officials say there will be a working group meeting held in early October where they’ll be doing a similar exercise using the feedback gathered from the public today. And they should be wrapping up phase one of the study in late October.