Traffic backups approaching the Steamship Authority terminal in Woods Hole remain a pain point for both travelers and residents of the village.
Tisbury’s select board gave its unanimous approval Tuesday for a bicycle and pedestrian route on the Edgartown-Vineyard Haven Road that will lead cyclists away from the treacherous State Road intersection.
Some of the Island’s most notorious stretches of asphalt are coming under scrutiny as Vineyard planners attempt to make roads safer.
As August makes way to September and the Vineyard readies its goodbye to summer, businesses are reporting mixed results even though preliminary data show more traffic on roads, runways and ferries.
The Edgartown Select Board Monday approved a plan to renovate a section of Peases Point Way and Church street in an attempt to improve pedestrian and bicyclist safety.
The town, in partnership with the University of New Hampshire Stormwater Center, will create a larger underground basin to allow better water flow out to the sea. Work could start later this year.