Description
Cars drive dangerously fast on Richardson St, particularly from the north when turning onto Richardson from Flynn. Request for speed bumps to be placd on this street when re-paving takes place. There are a ton of kids living on this street, and speeding cars are a common concern.
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14 Commentaires
Reconnu DPW Pine Customer Service (Membre officiel vérifié)
jkc (Utilisateur inscrit)
This is a concern through the whole Home/Flynn/Pine Ave The Champlain Parkway was devised and promised to help remedy the outrageous commuter and truck traffic of people trying to get into Burlington off of I-189. Our current DPW leadership and new majority of the City Council think that they can magically wish car use away. Yet it gets worse and worse with online shopping and workers getting pushed farther out of Burlington by astronomical housing prices. The most recent announcement by the DPW stated that they will do nothing about the real problem which federal funds were earmarked to address, and will instead attempt to use it for pet projects while punting the actual issue of alleviating traffic in the Addition to 2027 when they cynically suggest that the city council can kill the Champlain Parkway. They are playing us for suckers and think we will not notice.
http://www.champlainparkway.com/media/vz0dist4/e-champlain-parkway-august-2021-ls-fseis.pdf
In the short term the traffic you speak of will only get much worse with the work on the Shelburne Roundabout.
Gil (Utilisateur inscrit)
jkc (Utilisateur inscrit)
DPW has recently split the Champlain Parkway project into two construction contracts. That is, as they state, so the City Council can approve a substantial portion of the project at first to be constructed (using the federal funds) WITHOUT CONNECTING THE ROAD TO I-189! . The Council will then "determine" the appropriate time to authorize the Final Construction Contract sometime after 2027 which is absurd because the reason the whole project was approved and federal monies granted was to alleviate traffic on neighborhood streets which requires connecting the road to I-189.
Also, the promise that traffic would be taken off of neighborhood streets to I-189 by this connection is what Higher Ground used to argue that 800 cars wouldn't add traffic to neighborhood streets. But the Council has no intention of ever connecting the road to I-189. DPW is taking the federal money to build their pet projects that have been shoehorned into the larger project with a promise that the connection will come sometime in the future. They have to play this political game because FHWA and VTrans continue to state that the City will face repayment for project expenses incurred if the full Champlain Parkway project as designed and permitted is not completed.
So the final piece, as concocted by DPW, will be the forever promised, never delivered connection to I-189, which is a large reason why the whole thing was deemed necessary in the first place. A fact once again upheld by the latest impact statement.
The info is down a few pages in this document.
https://www.burlingtonvt.gov/sites/default/files/Agendas/Packet_25.pdf
http://www.champlainparkway.com/media/vz0dist4/e-champlain-parkway-august-2021-ls-fseis.pdf
Gil (Utilisateur inscrit)
Jim (Utilisateur inscrit)
Kenneth Allen (Utilisateur inscrit)
JG (Utilisateur inscrit)
Sara (Utilisateur inscrit)
jkc (Utilisateur inscrit)
There are enough escalating negative quality-of-life issues in Burlington that our very inexperienced and ideologically distracted city council members have neither the will nor the aptitude to address. The silent, non-activist portion of our citizenry will have to decide when they have had enough performative political theater and demand real action on real issues.
Gil (Utilisateur inscrit)
Burlington, VT (Membre officiel vérifié)
DPW Planning NL (Membre officiel vérifié)
Thank you for inquiring about traffic calming. We have requested traffic and crash data to help us determine the best options moving forward. For an overview of the process, please visit https://www.burlingtonvt.gov/dpw/TrafficCalming
We'll follow up with more information once we've completed our review of traffic and crash data, which will occur during this coming winter. The traffic calming program is very popular and there is a queue of streets ahead of this request, but we will use the winter months to develop any improvement plans for the coming year.
Gil (Utilisateur inscrit)