Sunapee road line striping crews working across town Tuesday

Striping crews were moving across Sunapee on Tuesday, slowing traffic on 10 roads as the town refreshed pavement markings meant to improve visibility and keep drivers in their lanes. Residents and visitors should use caution, reduce speed and follow traffic-control personnel and signage while work was active.

The Town of Sunapee listed Lower Main Street, Trow Hill Road, Bradford Road, North Road, Stagecoach Road, Perkins Pond Road, Main Street, Ryder Corner Road, Prospect Hill Road and Sargent Road for the day’s line striping. Because the work covered multiple parts of town at once, drivers heading to homes, businesses and recreation areas faced brief delays from the village center to neighborhood connectors.

Fresh striping helps define lanes, crosswalks and turning spaces, especially on roads that carry commuter traffic, lake traffic and summer visitors at the same time. The Highway Department maintains and improves town highways, sidewalks, stormwater collection systems, bridges, dams, intersection signalization and other infrastructure, and Highway Business Manager Jenn McClaine can be reached at 603-763-5060, option 1.

Crews were repairing a sinkhole on Lower Main Street between The Bend at Sugar River and the Crutch Factory earlier in the year, and the town also hosted a Route 11 traffic-calming pop-up near Lower Main Street from May 31 through June 8 with the Upper Valley Lake Sunapee Regional Planning Commission and Forward Sunapee. In March, all town roads were posted for weight limits starting March 10.

On May 7, the Highway Department conducted line striping in parking lots and crosswalks beginning at 8:00 a.m., and the same day it announced annual street sweeping to improve safety and protect stormwater systems. In May 2025, River Road was converted to one-way traffic between Maple Street and High Street, adding 15 parking spaces in the harbor area and reducing pedestrian-vehicle conflicts.

At a June 2026 Highway Safety Committee meeting, town officials discussed center-line markings along with speeding, signage, pavement markings, multimodal access and access management.