Popular Shortcut To Become One-Way Street

Valhalla Way will be between the eastern most intersection at Valhalla and Surrey Drive heading to Hamburg Turnpike.

The council approved the change with an ordinance Wednesday night.

Drivers will be prohibited from turning left onto Valhalla Way from Hamburg Turnpike. Drivers make the turn constantly throughout the day as a way of avoiding a jughandle on Hamburg Turnpike. 

Officials and residents have been critical of the county to install the jughandle on Hamburg, a county-owned roadway.

“It’s turned a quite, residential neighborhood into a raceway,” said Councilwoman Nadine Bello, who sponsored the legislation.

Vehicles also cut through Valhalla and Surrey to get to Jackson Avenue, which connects to Black Oak Ridge Road and Route 23.

Drivers often speed through the quite neighborhood, which is located near .

There is a blind hill on Surrey leading up to Valhalla. Residents said that vehicles speed up the hill and do not slow down when heading onto Valhalla.

“Vehicles travel 40 miles an hour up that hill and kids are constantly walking on these streets,” said Chris Cannizzaro, a Surrey Avenue resident. “They don’t even use their brakes.”