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John Blankley (opinion): I once voted to keep cops on The Ave. Now I ve changed my mind
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A Greenwich Police officer directs traffic at Greenwich Avenue and Elm Street in Greenwich, Connecticut, in January 2020.File / Tyler Sizemore / Hearst Connecticut Media
Here we go again, a decades-old debate: the issue of traffic police on the Avenue is item 1 on the Representative Town Meeting’s agenda (“the call”) on March 8, pitting traditionalists against modernists.
When I first served on the RTM a dozen years ago one of the first votes I took was to keep “cops on the Avenue.” The proposal at that time was to install traffic lights, a soulless idea, so the choice then was easy and an overwhelming majority nixed it. And it was all the easier for me because when we’d arrived from the UK almost 25 years before we saw local police directing traffic and it was such a reminder of “Olde England.”