Bath asks highway officials for pedestrian protections, gets mixed answers

by Trish Rudder

At January 2 Bath Town Council meeting , Mayor Scott Merki said the letter from the  state Division of Highways (DOH) regarding pedestrian crosswalks on U.S. 522 and reducing the speed limit on Wilkes Street was “perplexing.”

In prior phone conversations with the DOH chief engineer of operations, Joe Pack, about the lack of crosswalks and a lower speed limit on Wilkes Street, Merki said he was told of an engineering study…