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Siesta Seen BID SOLICITATION FINALLY GOES OUT FOR SIESTA VILLAGE CROSSWALK LIGHTING; PARKING AND TOWING ISSUES POP UP AGAIN By Rachel Brown Hackney Editor It was 11 months ago during a Siesta Key Village Association meeting when Peter van Roekens, vice president of the Siesta Key Association and the Terrace East representative to the SKVA meetings, first brought up the need for better lighting of crosswalks in Siesta Village. from one side of Ocean Boulevard to the other ��� particularly in the area between the Daiquiri Deck and Gilligan���s Island Bar and Grill. After several Sarasota County Commission discussions of the topic and a few lighting equipment demonstrations in the Village during the summer, a request for bids speciFor older drivers at night, especially, he point- fying bollards with LED lighting finally went ed out, it is difficult to see pedestrians heading out at midnight on Dec. 8. Drivers say it is difficult to spot pedestrians in many of the Siesta Village crosswalks at night. Photo by Norman Schimmel