This is also a problem of design, people are trying to move across the city from Fair Haven or the freeway to Newhall/Hamden areas and these small hilly residential streets are being used as shortcuts. Still no excuse for assault w/a deadly weapon...

Derek, that's true, but drivers who fail to yield to pedestrians and/or drive at unreasonable speeds (i.e., greater than 20 miles per hour) through these areas are really not saving themselves any time.

The streets should be redesigned to balance the needs of all road users. In fact, lowering design speeds by re-engineering intersections, adding clearly-marked crosswalks and posting lower limits might actually make cross-town traffic flow more smoothly, especially on the hills. Drivers wouldn't be doing the speed-stop, speed-stop and vehicles could travel closer together, increasing veh/hr capacity.

Have you heard back from the police department about this report?

Through traffic is a still a problem all the way from East Rock to Downtown. We need some large-scale plan to get through traffic out of residential streets and onto commercial and industrial routes.

Closing due to old age.