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The new peanut at Chapel and Yale is a HUGE improvement and also further highlights just how FAST drivers make the approach to it on Chapel. Chapel's sidewalk by Edgewood park was such a delight to walk while the street was closed to cars. Now that it's back open, walking it once again means having no physical buffer between you and cars careening down at dangerous and illegal speeds before getting slowed by the peanut — yay peanut, but seriously, we need to address more of Chapel. This super wide street (all of Chapel is too car-dedicated, but this area is particular egregious) is dangerous by design and needs to reprioritize people on foot or micro mobility vehicle (related: how the heck are micro mobility users supposed to safely and easily transfer to/use the multi-use lane at the peanut? It's a 90 degree turn right where drivers are just beginning to stop short — someone's going to be killed if you don't build a safe connection and fast!) and physically slow down drivers. This means hard protection (like the peanut has) rather than paint or plastic delineators — which we know will do protect anyone from injury or death and we also know from Edgewood the city authorities will not replace despite claiming it is both "easy" and "affordable" to do so.