Rehoboth moving forward with more traffic-calming measures
In advance of the 2026 summer season, a number of traffic-calming measures are coming to a handful of Rehoboth Beach’s busiest streets and roads.
The recommendations came from the city’s newly established streets & safety advisory committee. Commissioners moved forward with approval during a meeting Feb. 20.
Commissioner Mark Saunders is the committee chair. He described the improvements as 90-day implementation measures because they could be done without much help from outside sources.
State Road and Henlopen and Columbia avenues were the primary focus of the recommendations. Traffic-calming measures include the installation of additional speed limit signage, the installation of speed readers on a permanent or rotating basis, painted driveway boxes and a center stripe down the roads.
Other approved recommendations include the installation of more painted crosswalks on Bayard Avenue and the formation of a subgroup to meet with Police Chief Keith Banks to discuss what it would take to increase enforcement of the city’s speed limits.
Mayor Stan Mills suggested commissioners accept the report and discuss the recommendations at the commissioner meeting slated for Monday, March 9, but a majority of the commissioners wanted city staff to move forward immediately.
Commissioner Chris Galanty expressed frustration with the mayor’s suggested path forward because 90 days from early March is early June. He said the committee was tasked with making these recommendations and there’s broad public support.
Commissioner Craig Their said City Manager Taylour Tedder can move forward with the recommendations as practical and then come back to the March 9 meeting with an update on any issues that might prohibit the implementation of these measures in advance of the coming season.
Tedder said he didn’t anticipate any issues. Some of the items will have to be ordered, but staff can go out and do the others, he said.
This is the second round of traffic-calming and pedestrian improvement measures approved by commissioners since the conclusion of the 2025 summer season. In December, officials agreed to add crosswalks to all the intersections on King Charles Avenue.
Chris Flood has been working for the Cape Gazette since early 2014. He currently covers Rehoboth Beach and Henlopen Acres, but has also covered Dewey Beach and the state government. He covers environmental stories, business stories and random stories on subjects he finds interesting, and he also writes a column called Choppin’ Wood that runs every other week. He’s a graduate of the University of Maine and the Landing School of Boat Building & Design.
