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Been thinking about this for a while - but this past weekend finally pushed me. Was painting my fence, which backs up to a building on Grand Ave, and nearly got peed on by someone who decided to urinate on the opposite side of my fence, not knowing I was there.
Grand Ave between Olive and Jefferson is a drag on our neighborhood. Noise issues, drug use, littering, loss of businesses (looks like Olive & Grand Food Mart is shutting down) - it cuts right through our neighborhood and is an uninviting divider separating Lyon & William Streets from the rest.
It's time to clean this mess up.
Follow the Howe St model - not long ago, that wasn't a great place to be after dark. Now it's totally transformed.
Put up cameras to curb illicit activity, and improve pedestrian confidence at night.
Calm traffic and improve access by adding a bike lane (to connect with existing bike lanes downtown, and beginning on Grand Ave entering Fair Haven). Street parking - metered and/or resident.
This would be a serious quality of life improvement for neighbors, and connecting just-out-of-downtown businesses to a growing downtown.
Time to start a conversation.
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Paul Wessel (Isticmaale Diiwaangashan)
cordalie (Isticmaale Diiwaangashan)
Michael Davidson (Isticmaale Diiwaangashan)
Display Name Blocked (123914) (Isticmaale Diiwaangashan)
Display Name Blocked (123914) (Isticmaale Diiwaangashan)
The only one that was proactive in getting sh*t done was the neighborhood watch.
NHVCyclist (Isticmaale Diiwaangashan)
Paul - Very interested in learning more about the Special Service District and seeing if it can a) be expanded to include the (albeit small) Wooster Square section, or b) if something similar can be established for Wooster Square.
Grand Ave in much of Fair Haven is active with many types of businesses, and has parking & bike lanes like I've described which are useful, inviting, and serve to calm traffic.
Fair Haven tends to have far greater challenges than Wooster Square, so if progress can be made there...
Again, we are only talking about a short section of road here, but it breaks up a neighborhood, and disconnects points eastward of Wooster Square from Downtown.
Paul Wessel (Isticmaale Diiwaangashan)
NadineSCF (Isticmaale Diiwaangashan)
Hi all, this is Nadine, Engagement Advocate for SeeClickFix. This looks like a great discussion for our new SeeClickFix Community Slack Channel that we will be launching next week! This channel will be an open space for discussion of topics that don't fit the usual issue categories on SeeClickFix, and will allow for dialogue that is respectful, pragmatic, and useful to the concerns and ideas of its members.
Send me an email at nadine.herring@seeclickfix.com and I'd be happy to send out an invite to all those interested.
NHVCyclist (Isticmaale Diiwaangashan)
NHVCyclist (Isticmaale Diiwaangashan)
Since Grand is (still) torn up from milling, with rumors that a completion date could be a month or more out, it seems to me like a perfect time to incorporate some improvements?
Marked parking spaces, marked bike lane to connect to the Downtown and Fair Haven routes, etc.
Easier to plan for it now while it's all torn up, I would think...
Would be a nice consolation prize to those of us in the area who are getting our cars and bikes beat up thanks to this poorly planned milling/paving job (seriously, NEVER seen such a long time gap between milling and paving). Looks like I already need to replace a nearly-new bike tire thanks to Olive Street...
cordalie (Isticmaale Diiwaangashan)
La xidhay Manager of Operations, Process Improvement - Transportation, Traffic, & Parking (La Caddeeyey Rasmi ah)