Description
A crosswalk is needed for the northern corner of the Pine St/Front St intersection to allow for safe access for children and families to the pedestrian gate of the Waucoma Yacht Club. Currently a dangerous curve on Front Street leaves families with young children dodging speeding traffic to access the pedestrian gate. The road was redone without this crosswalk being striped. There is currently no visual cue for the motorist that people are crossing. Summer boating season makes this a serious issue as more and more people access the club.
101 Commentaires
DEZ (Invité)
Brian Tang (Utilisateur inscrit)
The city has very limited funds for restriping and would like to focus crosswalk restriping on areas of high pedestrian traffic.
Technically, every intersection is already legally a crosswalk, whether or not one is striped on the road. If drivers are not yielding the right of way, it is most likely not out of any maliciousness. Even at striped crosswalks, it takes a second to register the fact that there is a pedestrian standing at the corner (I know because I've kicked myself numerous times for blowing past pedestrians at street corners on my bicycle). I've found that it's often worth just waving to drivers to try to get their attention. It's possible that they still won't notice you or simply won't care, but it's always worth a shot.
If speeds are simply too fast for this to work, let me know and we'll have to try figure out something else.
Basically, it's hard to know what to do because it would be completely impractical to ask the city to paint crosswalks at every single intersection like this. And frankly, a lot of people are skeptical that slapping more paint on the ground is the most cost-effective way to improve safety.
DEZ (Invité)
DEZ (Invité)
Heather Findlay (Invité)
Do you live in this neighborhood? Just wondering because this is an intersection that is in heavy use by the Waucoma Yacht Club members, families, and the parties they rent the space out to. This is not just any intersection. And as far as the city having limited funds..we're talking PAINT. To me this is a no brainer.
Brian Tang (Invité)
Point taken.
I'll try again to convince the traffic engineer here. I think he's frustrated because there are more crosswalks already striped in the city than the budget will allow us to repaint.
Nevertheless, I think you are right. If there's any way you can think of to provide evidence of high ped traffic (a petition? SCF comments?a good photograph can speak volumes.) that might help convince Bruce that it's not just this one person on Front St who won't stop complaining.
As a last resort, you can always go to your Alderperson and have them lean on the department until you get what you want. I would prefer that it not come to that, as that's how a whole lot of unnecessary stop signs and centerlines have been put in over the years.
Heather Findlay (Invité)
The community just finished a walk through the neighborhood with Mayor and after stopping in at the Yacht Club and hearing about the 6 times their gates have been crashed into because of traffic issues, he fully understood our issues. I hope Bruce talks to the Mayor regarding this, but if we need to petition we will.
DEZ (Invité)
Brian Tang (Invité)
Brian Tang (Invité)
Jerry (Invité)
Very dangerous for kids and adults. Crosswalk is needed now.
JD
Julia (Invité)
CT Livable Streets Campaign (Utilisateur inscrit)
A crosswalk and other progressive road designs would be helpful at making this street more welcoming to residents of all ages and abilities.
The city's in-street pedestrian signs are not just used on State Street -- there are dozens now in place in the Dixwell, Downtown, East Rock, Hill, Westville, West Rock and other neighborhoods. Having more in Fair Haven would be great.
Brian Tang (Invité)
Bruce's response when I asked him about putting in a crosswalk and an in-street crosswalk sign at Front and Pine: "I don't think so."
You might want to ask your alderperson (and the mayor) to start leaning on the department to override Bruce's analysis.
Brian Tang (Utilisateur inscrit)
Hold on. Bruce has decided to elaborate to me on his argument, so please refrain from contacting your elected officials until you can hear all of what he has to say (then you can decide after that).
First off, Bruce points to this study:
http://www.tfhrc.gov/safety/pubs/04100/index.htm
conducted in 2005 by the Federal Highway Administration. After conducting robust statistical analysis of 1000 marked and 1000 matched unmarked crosswalks in 30 cities across the U.S., the researchers were able to determine that "on two-lane roads, the presence of a marked crosswalk alone at an uncontrolled location was associated with no difference in pedestrian crash rate, compared to an unmarked crosswalk."
Secondly, Bruce reemphasized the fact that the city has only allocated funds to restripe 30 crosswalks this year. If Pine and Front were to get a crosswalk, an existing (presumably more heavily used) faded crosswalk would not be repainted.
Third, Bruce points out that there are no curb ramps on the east side of Front St. He does not want to stripe a crosswalk to a curb with no ADA ramps. Until someone puts up the money for curb ramps, a new crosswalk at Pine St would be in his view unwise and contrary to the spirit of the American's with Disabilities Act.
apple (Invité)
Brian Tang (Invité)
Julia (Invité)
Does this mean we need to wait for one of us or God forbid one of our children to become disabled by a speeder to get some paint in the road??? Nice excuse Bruce! The Waucoma driveway doesn't count as a "ramp"? it is street level. They city won't put sidewalks in on the other side of the street and because of that we can't get a crosswalk because of no ramp access. This is a lose/lose situation for residents. Thanks for nothing once again!!!
Brian Tang (Utilisateur inscrit)
Stripe It Yourseld (Invité)
Brian Tang (Invité)
Elizabeth F (Invité)
Brian--
Then how has the city basically shut down Chapel Street for sidewalk renovation? I think the city must maintain sidewalks for aesthetic consistency, as well.
I understand the point that you and Bruce are making, but the homeowners in Fair Haven need some alternative to make that street safer. It was never intended to be the through-street it has become, linking Middletown Ave./Foxon and Grand Ave./Chapel St.
ben (Invité)
The city puts in new sidewalks but the property owner is responsible for their maintenance including cracked sidewalk etc unless it is damaged by a city tree?
Heather Findlay (Invité)
Brian,
Who is Bruce and why are you answering for him? He needs to talk to the Mayor or to us.
No one is denying this is an unsafe place to cross. That is exactly why we need a crosswalk here!!!! People WILL slow down if they see something in the middle of the road.
And Bruce is concerned about a "moral hazard"??? The moral hazard is that we can't get the City to do one thing to help us...not even a freaking crosswalk!! SOMEONE WILL DIE. Plain and simple without the City taking some measures. The road should NOT have a double yellow line. We SHOULD have more crosswalks with the median signs. I have seen virtually NONE of these in my neighborhood...WHY BRUCE WHY???
I think we should go and get some paint people...whose with me?!
Heather Findlay (Invité)
Oh...
And we do in fact have ADA ramps on Pine Street so that's one excuse that doesn't hold up.
Its helpful to actually know the places you are discussing.
Anonymous (Invité)
Anonymous (Invité)
Dear City Authorities,
Let me see if I have this right. Painted cross walks don't work. Why have you put so many of them around the city? And isn't there a state law about painted crosswalks and pedestrians having the right of way? There's no curb cut for ADA purposes. Hmmm... Did you forget the government separated the sewers on this part of Front St...and put in the current sidewalks without a curb cut?
If you don't like our idea what are yours? In the past few years there have been at least 8 accidents in this block of Front St. There was one death. It's a very narrow street and has become more dangerous since the re-paving (following the sewer work) and speeding and reckless driving are out of hand. There are also 7 young kids on this one block and the extra traffic from two marinas. Would you like us to simply shut up? Or do you prefer engaged citizens who let you know about serious issues in their neighborhoods?
Jerry
Brian Tang (Utilisateur inscrit)
Bruce is the city's Traffic Operations Engineer. His job is to keep traffic in New Haven flowing as smoothly as possible.
Bruce has a responsibility to be accountable to the taxpayers and ensure that investments in pedestrian safety are made where they are most desperately needed.
Personally, you have convinced me that Front St is as desperately in need of traffic calming as anywhere else in the city.
As Bruce was quick to point out when I told him that, Front St is already narrow and windy, so curb extensions and chicanes won't do any good. Bruce is convinced that speed humps and roundabouts just cause people to speed even more between the measures.
In my opinion, a crosswalk with an in-street crosswalk sign is a reasonable ask. While pedestrian volumes are not as great as in other cases around the city, the safety risk to pedestrians necessitates some form of traffic calming or speed enforcement. While painting a crosswalk alone is not an effective traffic calming measure, the addition of an in-street crosswalk sign may provide the needed traffic calming effect. To my knowledge, New Haven is the first city in the country to deploy them on a large scale, so we have no data to justify their implementation. Still, the cost of installation (a few hundred dollars) is literally two orders of magnitude less than a half closure (my back-up suggestion if the sign doesn't solve the problem). In conclusion, although painting a crosswalk alone would not be appropriate at this intersection, you have convinced me that a crosswalk, combined with an in-street crosswalk sign would be an appropriate measure.
I'll take this up with Bruce one more time, and then bring your arguments to the Department Director. If anyone could take photographs of the curb ramps, that would be helpful. If it turns out that Jerry is right and curb cuts were put in when the sewer was, that is a shame. Curb work, like that currently going on on Chapel Street, must be conducted as part of a project (to my knowledge, there are no regular city funds allocated toward adding curb ramps). According to the Independent, the Chapel Street work is being done as part of the River Street Municipal Development Plan. In other words, putting in the curb ramp is definitely doable, but it's expensive enough that it will take time to secure the money for it.
Finally, please ask your alderperson to advocate for more money for restriping crosswalks next year, because the department was only given money to restripe 30 crosswalks this year (and there are a lot more than 30 crosswalks in this town).
Brian Tang (Utilisateur inscrit)
typo. insert "not" between "were" and "put" in sentence 3 of paragraph 6 of my last comment.
That was a really important word to leave out
Brian Tang (Utilisateur inscrit)
important word to have left out, that is
amazing how writing something in the wrong tense can dramatically change the possible meaning.
Brian Tang (Invité)
Hey, I think Bruce is starting to come around.
Apparently he thought I was talking about those flashers embedded in the pavement when he told me he didn't "think so."
I'll hold off for awhile and see if Bruce continues to warm to the crosswalk+sign idea. In the mean time I'll try to bring it up with the Department Director next time I see him.
Julia (Invité)
Please remind Bruce that not all of Front Street is "narrow and windy". This stretch is wide enough for cars to park on the street and a straight road. People easily hit 60mph and a sign in the road would make people slow down! I think Bruce needs to get out a bit more and see how wide and straight this stretch is, the "windy" part is at the other end. Quite honestly the windy part doesn't slow cars down they just drive into the oncoming lane. Come down and take a look at the section between Chatham and Pine, even up to Lewis Street.
Front Street Raceway.
Hey neighbors, maybe we can start selling tickets to the "car races" and make enough $ to buy our own signs and paint!
Jeannette Faber (Invité)
DEZ (Invité)
CT Livable Streets Campaign (Utilisateur inscrit)
Bruce's analysis is overly simplistic. Crosswalks have a variety of purposes. Their sole purpose is not to reduce the accident rate between pedestrians and vehicles, and the study that was cited is extremely limited in terms of what conclusions you can draw about the safety impacts of such improvements in the long-term.
Bruce's sentiments are noble, however - I know he honestly believes that our streets are currently completely inadequate when it comes to promoting the social, economic and healthy growth of the City of New Haven and its residents. A crosswalk can help but a road can be even better when combined with pedestrian refuge medians and progressive road geometry (see Chapter 2 of http://www.nyc.gov/html/dot/html/about/streetdesignmanual.shtml for examples). I hope Bruce realizes that there are many citizens willing to support him on these goals.
DEZ also has a point that, given the history of the street, much more drastic measures may be needed here. How about making a street that people want to walk, bike, stroll, chat and play outside on, instead of one that functions as a super highway?
Brian Tang (Utilisateur inscrit)
Brian Tang (Utilisateur inscrit)
Hey everyone,
I took a visit to Front St this morning and filmed a video as I tried to cross at Pine. I was waving at the drivers to try to get their attention to see if they would yield the right of way. Instead this guy pulls over thinking that I crashed my bicycle and needed a lift. Needless to say that was an awkward situation...
Check out the video. I also included a photo of the view of the intersection from Front St.
Brian Tang (Utilisateur inscrit)
http://cityrepair.org/
http://www.streetfilms.org/archives/intersection-repair/
Resident (Invité)
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Julia (Invité)
I've watched the video and appreciate that you took the time to come see the area. What time of day did you come by? It looks like mid-morning by the way traffic was... not busy.
Oh, and do you think think the city would be into "squishy speed bumps"? We can't even get a pedestrian crossing sign in the road. I can't imagine they would spring for anything that fancy.
Thanks again.
Brian Tang (Utilisateur inscrit)
“Cedar-York Intersection Project this Sunday.
Come paint the intersection!! This Sunday, July 19th from 10 am – 2 pm we'll be turning the intersection at Cedar and York Streets in New Haven into a beautiful community space. We'll be painting an elm leaf design right in the middle of the intersection. There will be food & music and no artistic talent is required! Rain date: Sunday, July 26 (10 am – 2pm).”
You are all invited.
David Streever (Utilisateur inscrit)
"If you don't like our idea what are yours? In the past few years there have been at least 8 accidents in this block of Front St. There was one death. It's a very narrow street and has become more dangerous since the re-paving (following the sewer work) and speeding and reckless driving are out of hand."
Wow. What a great comment from Jerry.
I want to see this copy & pasted everytime we find a legitimately dangerous intersection and the city simply says NO.
(DestefaNO? oh I crack myself up)
Resident (Invité)
DEZ (Invité)
Libby (Invité)
Julia (Invité)
Anonymous (Invité)
Hi Julia, Libby, DEZ, and everyone else,
A bunch of us are going to meet at Cedar and York at 5:30 next Thursday evening to figure out where to go from here. If you'd like to, you are all welcome to tag along and learn about the logistics of putting this on.
Intersection repair is about a lot more than putting a mural down on the road; it's about bringing together the community and creating a sense of place.
(Of course, we are trying to figure out how much it would cost/whether it would be feasible to use high-grade traffic paint to do something that will last more than four days. Even if it turns out we can't repaint it, though, the event was still a great success in that it brought all of us together and got the ball rolling toward figuring out how to really improve Cedar and York as a public space.)
You all already have a great start with the Lewis St Park and the Chatham Square group. You can build off of that, and slowly, but surely I'm positive that you will be able to figure out a way to work with the City to calm traffic on Front St. It will probably involve some grant writing, some frustration, and an inordinate amount of patience, but anything is possible if you are able to spend the time to understand the issue from all angles.
Front Street is much narrower than the typical street in need of traffic calming. It will take some creativity, some prudence, and some research, but you'll figure something out.
Anonymous (Invité)
http://www.cityofnewhaven.com/TrafficParking/pdfs/FairHavenTrafficCalming0608.pdf
David Streever (Utilisateur inscrit)
we should all hang out.
that traffic calming PDF is amazing. 207 pages of suggestions.
I hope the City can start issuing timelines & working towards the vision presented there.
Anonymous (Invité)
Heather Findlay (Invité)
Anonymous (Invité)
DEZ (Invité)
Brian Tang (Utilisateur inscrit)
a possibly relevant scientific paper (I'm not 100% the url will work, but give it a try, and just leave a comment if it doesn't):
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=GatewayURL&_method=citationSearch&_uoikey=B6V5S-4MX4VY7-1&_origin=SDEMFRHTML&_version=1&md5=140c255d41166544daf21e44de1559a8
Brian Tang (Utilisateur inscrit)
Resident (Invité)
Nothing has been done - is it time for some guerilla traffic calming led by residents?
That's the only way traffic calming ever got done in many other cities around the world, maybe it's time for it in New Haven?
Martha (Invité)
It is time that all residents take a good hard and long look at what changes are being made to your community on both sides of the river if you think you are being a good neighbor in reality you keep giving your space away and allowing this to happen. If you want to curtail the traffic curtail what adds to the traffic.
Paint the street after reading the threads to this article it looks like no one is paying attention anyway.
Everyone wants to build along the river, just know that all you allow to happen will end up pushing you out; space and safety are real issues, So I ask what drew you settle in this community.
Is it working?
Jon Doe (Invité)
TO Martha
The people that live on Front street and Lewis Street want it both ways. They want the there area improved so that there land value will go up, but they complain when the traffic starts coming into the area.
They wanted the splash pad at Lewis Street park and then when they got it they started complaining about the mud from the park all over the area.
I'm glad to see that they take pride in there community but these people are never happy in the end. They forget that thing are tought for the city right now and they keep asking for more and more.
David Streever (Utilisateur inscrit)
There is no need for the nastiness.
The people at Front & Lewis have put in a lot of time & energy to improve their neighborhood.
To read you two, one would think that a denser neighborhood means faster traffic--not at all. A dense, walkable, community is what these residents are working extraordinarily hard for, and instead of sniping from the bushes, perhaps you could get involved or at least voice support.
Jon Doe (Invité)
TO: Steever
I'm sorry if I can across as nasty to you or anyone in the community. My point is I'm always see the people of Front & Lewis street saying that want this and that done, but right now we live in a city that is being hit hard by the bad times. I don't see how all of these request help the whole community out and not just your little space in the community. I live 4 blocks away from Front street and we too are face with traffic problems. No one here is asking of the street to be redesigned. What we would like to see is a bigger police presents in the Whole community not just our street.
I understand you want for a dense, walkable, community. But where are the people going to park there car's at ? Has anyone address that issue or are you going to wait till you have that dense, walkable, community and people are parking on your neighbors front lawns. This is just like the splash pad that was put in a Lewis st. parks then the complaint started about the mud all over.
You people have a vision but not a complete plan in place.
DEZ (Invité)
CT Livable Streets Campaign (Utilisateur inscrit)
DEZ (Invité)
Intersection neighbor (Invité)
The next step is citizens take control and get the paint to do it on our own. I personally am tired of hearing the excuses from the city regarding funding. WE ARE TALKING ABOUT PAINT!!!
Neighbors, we are our own.
lk (Invité)
eliezerleecruz@gmail.com (Utilisateur inscrit)
Folks interested in traffic calming in the Lewis St. Park area:
Check out the speed bumps installed by the city on Chapel St. between James and the bridge over the Mill River. If you think speed bumps like this will slow cars approaching the Front and Lewis St. intersection let the City know.
HH (Invité)
We've been on rooftops yelling this as loud and collectively as possible to the City...they are not listening.
Brian Tang (Utilisateur inscrit)
Also, do be sure to take a look at this document from the summer of ‘08:
http://www.cityofnewhaven.com/TrafficParking/pdfs/FairHavenTrafficCalming0608.pdf
I know the City traffic engineer doesn’t think to highly of it, and I’m certainly not arguing that it should somehow be implemented overnight as-is (which was never the point of the exercise in the first place anyway). But it does provide a starting point to move the conversation forward in a positive manner (which was the point).
This document (above) suggests mini traffic circles for the intersection of Front and Lewis and the intersection of Front and Chatham. Mini traffic circles are essentially a cross between a roundabout and a two-way stop. Unlike roundabouts, they are small enough that they do not require any modification to the existing intersection geometry.
I’m a big fan of the idea of replacing the existing all-way stop at Lewis and Front with something a little less obnoxious. Mark and I were leading some Yale freshmen on a tour of New Haven going north on Front just before Lewis and we were being trailed by a cop car who was trying to pass us. I was a little worried that the cop was going to give us a hard time for rolling through the Lewis St stop sign. Instead, he passed us as we slowed down for the intersection and sailed right through the intersection himself. What can I say? It’s a terrible place for a stop sign. A mini circle or a raised median, or some variation on the above would be much better.
CT Livable Streets Campaign (Utilisateur inscrit)
Keep posting here. Get more people to vote on this issue. Go out and spray paint some XWalks at night, or put an old couch in the middle of the road, and take photos the next day showing how much of a difference it made. Talk to local cops about your concern. Meet with your state legislators who represent this district. Forward this issue to the media.
I've read plenty of case studies on how change happened on other streets around the world.
Given the number of people concerned here, it really shouldn't take that much more "shouting" before you start seeing some real change!
Libby Makela Johnson (Invité)
As someone who lives directly across from Lewis Street Park, I think we need something MORE obnoxious than the existing three stop signs at the intersection of Lewis and Front.
I have observed people's behavior in the traffic circles (I'm not sure if that's the appropriate term) at the East Shore Park entrances, and I'm not convinced that it's a viable solution. People continue to whiz through them and not give pedestrians or other cars the right of way.
I would like to see speed bumps on Lewis; it might discourage people from blowing down the hill and blowing through the stop sign.
I'm not sure what might work on Front, but there must be something. It's a really dangerous intersection, and Front Street itself encourages drivers to drive well above the speed limit, largely because, I think, there are no stop signs or other signals to slow down for the entire stretch.
I think we would appreciate and graciously accept any help the City can offer.
Brian Tang (Utilisateur inscrit)
Fair enough.
I think the argument against stop signs (and even speed humps, to some extent) is that there is a big difference between arbitrarily slowing traffic and actually calming traffic.
The diagram on slide #76 from the Fair Haven traffic calming charrette presentation makes the argument much more effectively than I can:
http://www.cityofnewhaven.com/TrafficParking/pdfs/FairHavenTrafficCalming0608.pdf
(diagram also attached to this comment).
That said, nobody really can figure out why people drive so fast on Front. According to all of the road design manuals, it should be the ideal calmed street as-is: it’s narrow; it has curves; it’s not as if it is a huge, long, straightway like River Street, Long Wharf, and Woodward all used to be. Honestly, I think the City finds it somewhat mystifying as to why people still drive fast there. It defies what the textbook says should happen and so they are left without a plan.
Clearly, one possibility is the lack of visual cues to drivers that this is someplace where it is not OK to drive “like it’s the Daytona 500.” Behavioral economists talk about signals all the time (the fact that you are selling your new car 2 weeks after you bought it signals to me that it is a lemon; the fact that the tax preparer has a nifty business card and a clean office signals to be that he has lots of business and therefore must do a good job; a nice tree canopy in a neighborhood signals to potential home-buyers that this is a well-kept neighborhood and not a neglected part of town, thereby increasing home values). However, our understanding of signals has only really matured over the past 5–10 years. Guess what, most traffic engineers have not cracked a textbook since the 1970s and aren’t likely to go back to school anytime soon. As a result, most traffic engineers have no idea how far our understanding of human decision-making has evolved and progressed over the past few years.
Some dude tried to address this by writing a book called “How we drive,” but unfortunately a traffic engineer who has been doing their job for over a generation is not likely to pay any attention to that sort of thing.
Libby, I have a feeling you were probably referring to the other kind of “signal” (of the red, yellow, and green variety) in your comment, but in an indirect sort of way, you called attention to what I think is the root problem, which is the lack of visual cues to drivers—what my economics textbook calls “signals”—that this is someplace where they need to slow down and drive extra-slow. Somebody famous once famously said “If you want people to drive like they are in a village, then make your street look like it is in a village.”
I think painting a nice, eye-catching design in the intersection of Pine and Front would be a great place to start. This spring, those of us who worked on the intersection painting at Cedar and York on the Med School campus are hopefully going to try to have a second go at it, this time with traffic paint after our initial try wore off after just a few days. If this spring’s painting is a success, Pine and Front would be one logical next step.
Striping the parking stalls might also be something you could convince the City to do within the next year.
Long term, I continue to think that mini traffic circles at Lewis and at Chatham would be ideal. Those intersections are at the two ends of the most problematic stretch and would provide drivers with and strong visual (and physical) cue that this is someplace where they need to drive slow.
Unlike roundabouts, mini traffic circles operate under the same rules as a two-way stop; i.e. traffic on Front would not be expected to yield to anyone (but would still have to slow down due to the fact that there is a circular planter in the middle of the road), while traffic on Lewis and on Chatham would be presented with a stop sign.
Personally, I wouldn't even stop for stop signs or traffic signals if more were added down the length of Front, so I don't think we can expect the average New Have driver to obey them when they really don't make sense.
DEZ (Invité)
Dearest Community, we're all animals, some of us are just more evolved. I look at the anamalistic behavior on Front St, from East Pearl to Middletown avenue, and can only come up with barrier types of traffic calming as ways to slow people down.
I've physically witnessed cars slow for: a parked car, a baby carriage, an elderly person, a loose dog, a disabled person in an electric wheelchair, and a transvestite prostitute walking the double yellow line singing Donna Summer songs.
What do these things have in common? They are physical, real, and are in the line of traffic, so they may scratch your paint should you hit them. Traffic engineering on Front will FAIL unless there is a physical elements such as a median, speed humps, chicanes, circles, see Dan Burdens presentation for other ideas. We can talk till the rapture, but it's not going to change folks.
We can't teach all animals to say please, and thank you, but we can force them into a situation where they need to make a conscious choice in terms of whether or not they are going to drive like an animal and risk scratching their rims, or conceeding to slow down for 3/4 of a mile, in a residential neighborhood.
CT Livable Streets Campaign (Utilisateur inscrit)
I agree with DEZ - it is a simple design matter.
Brian's suggestion of painting the intersections could also help, at least in the short term.
It's best to get a city permit for this but if anyone has paint and just wants to go out and do it, please post here - sure others would join in.
Brian Tang (Utilisateur inscrit)
DEZ (Invité)
Ben (Invité)
I saw an ad on our site for rubber speed bumps.
I clicked through (hopefully google does not bust me for click fraud :-))
They were only 180.00:
http://www.safestparkingproducts.com/cart/product_info.php?cPath=1&products_id=11&osCsid=0jp6cpb1ppohh6ag80cdnodcg1
I never thought I'd repost one of the ads on our site as a solution. Well done google :-)
Anonymous (Invité)
I live on Front and for YEARS I have begged for speed bumps. They have them on Perkins, and now River Street, and now Chapel by the bridge. We also need them along Front Street NOT just at the Lewis intersection. I live in the long and straight stretch closer to Grand and it is a raceway.
We are tired of asking. Just do it! Someone is going to be killed on this street.
Brian Tang (Utilisateur inscrit)
I would consider this to be one of the rare instances where speed humps would actually be an appropriate measure in my book. From what I can tell, speed humps are most effective when used on collectors and local streets. Currently, the City’s functional classification map defines Front Street as a local street. Even if its functional classification were revised to “collector” to reflect the (true) fact that Front Street is used by some through traffic, it would still lie within the range of functional classifications where speed humps can be effective.
I encourage you to continue to push for speed humps and crosswalks in the short term and mini traffic circles at Front and Lewis and at Front and Chatham in the long term. These measures are all appropriate on collectors and local streets. The City’s existing functional classification map currently indicates that most through traffic should use Ferry to get between Grand and Middletown. While I do think that the small but significant amount of through traffic on Front makes it more of a collector than a local street given current traffic patterns, I do not believe that current traffic patterns would give any reason to classify it as a minor arterial or principle arterial. Thus, I am fairly confident that speed humps on Front St would not have a significant negative impact on neighborhood traffic flow, emergency response times, or bus routing.
Given the consistent history of unsafe speeds on this stretch of road, if a substantial majority of residents support speed humps, I think they would be an appropriate medium-term measure on this street.
(Photo from NH Independent: http://www.newhavenindependent.org/archives/2009/09/out_with_the_ch.php)
Reconnu CT Livable Streets Campaign (Utilisateur inscrit)
Acknowledged by CTLS. Thank you for reporting stop sign violations and other safety issues at this intersection.
We are tracking similar issues statewide so please report them here when you see them.
DEZ (Invité)
CT Livable Streets Campaign (Utilisateur inscrit)
Anonymous (Invité)
That's really awesome that advertisements are part of a solution Ben
The neighborhood can create history maybe (first time ads ever were part of a solution?) if we actually install some
Ben (Invité)
Maybe someone should ask the company to donate :-)
JC (Invité)
Brian Tang (Utilisateur inscrit)
Erin’s father-in-law was sued for crossing a double-yellow line while backing out of his driveway‽
That’s an outrage!
Jon Doe (Invité)
WOW you people just keep fueling each other. Keep up the good work.
(Erin’s father-in-law was sued for crossing a double-yellow line while backing out of his driveway‽)
Why didn't his Auto Insurance cover him? Did he have any?
Ben Berkowitz (Utilisateur inscrit)
Is that Photoshop? Did they really put a traffic circle in there?
Brian Tang (Invité)
concerned (Invité)
The New Haven Park and Rec dept put a crosswalk in east rock park on a blind corner. It is on farnum Drive after east rock road going north. I will call the city on this because it is VERY dangerous to encourage people to cross the road after a blind corner.
Instead of having this one put in, why could they not put one here in Fair Haven?
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Ben (Invité)
HH (Invité)
I certainly hope so!! But again, you never know!
David Streever (Utilisateur inscrit)
concerned:
the speed limit there is low enough that the visibility between the crosswalk & the curve is sufficient. (This was OK'd by City Engineering)
If you are speeding you might not have sufficient time to brake, but otherwise, I encourage you to measure the distance yourself. I approximated it at 35 feet.
While I think crosswalks are important all over town, this one was placed due to hundreds of neighbors asking for it directly to parks, plus a really active SCF clicket, plus the aldermanic hopeful Justin Elicker's incredible work on getting it in.
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Brian Tang (Utilisateur inscrit)
http://www.good.is/post/how-to-get-a-crosswalk-for-your-neighborhood-in-6-ish-weeks
Brian Tang (Utilisateur inscrit)
http://www.cityofnewhaven.com/aldermen/index.asp
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ruben (Invité)
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