HARRISBURG, Pa. (WHTM) — Nobody had to sell Mayor Wanda Williams (D) on the idea that Division Street in uptown Harrisburg is dangerous.
“Last year, I was present when they were doing 55 miles an hour” — along the 25-mile-per-hour street, Williams said — “and they hit a young person from Camp Curtin school.”
Williams spoke before a Thursday night to reveal — and begin gathering community input about — engineer renderings of four possible street redesign plans, which include different variations of new bicycle and/or walking lanes, a raised center median roundabouts and raised crosswalks, those last two similar to measures that have helped reduce injuries along 2nd Street, which converted in 2022 from a one-way to a two-way street…