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The crosswalk where Fountain Street merges into Whalley Avenue in Westville Village continues to be a danger zone, both for pedestrians, cars, and bicycles. Until this intersection can be completely rebuilt to slow traffic down and allow for a safe, signalized crosswalk here, there needs to be both an in-street pedestrian sign installed (as utilized throughout the city) as well as a transformation of the asphalt island at the merge into a planted median and median refuge. This will help slow traffic down by signalling to drivers that they are NOT on a highway, rather in a neighborhood with people walking and small businesses trying to survive. This is an inexpensive mitigation effort that can and should be done immediately. TT&P, please acknowledge.
13 Comentários
BB (Utilizador Registado)
Would you have an interest in fund raising for planting improvements as well as pedestrian improvements if we helped and the city agreed?
Chris Heitmann (Utilizador Registado)
Chris Heitmann (Utilizador Registado)
BB (Utilizador Registado)
Do you happen to have estimated budgets for any of the projects? If so, you could start walking through the approval process here: http://seeclickfix.com/new-haven/projects and we'll help shepherd with the city.
Chris Heitmann (Utilizador Registado)
BB (Utilizador Registado)
I think that's a good assessment. On Upper State we fund raised for 500.00 for each in road sign. I think we could get permissiion
from Traffic and Parking to do that piece. My guess is that planters would be the next step and those would just need to be spec'd by the Traffic and Parking as well. The State seems very receptive to these things as well these days so I would be happy to help make that connection if they need to be involved. I am going to meet with Rob Smuts Monday to discuss how best to move some of these things forward quickly.
Maybe a first step for you while we're waiting to get City approval would be to spec out some planters that you have seen in other cities in medians that work. If this is an iteration before a final project the planters could be moved somewhere else in Westville afterwards.
Chris Heitmann (Utilizador Registado)
patdillon (Utilizador Registado)
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Lets All Work Together (Utilizador Registado)
Chris Heitmann (Utilizador Registado)
The City controls these signals at this point so it's on them in the short-term. Let's Work Together, I agree completely re: the elements that should be in place for the short-term fix.
The longer-term fix, I believe, is a wholesale redo of the intersection where Fountain would T into Whalley, slowing people down, eliminating the merge altogether, improving crossing, creating wider sidewalks, and even adding a few curbside parking spaces potentially. The Whalley Avenue corridor study lays out one possibility - see page 31, Exhibit 3-7: http://www.scrcog.org/documents/WhalleyAvenue-FinalReport.pdf
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Chris Heitmann (Utilizador Registado)
Update on the ped signal: At long last, thanks to the hard work of Doug Hausladen and Bijan Nothgi at TTP, this crosswalk now has a pedestrian-activated, signalized crosswalk. No more garbage bags! The crossing is safer as traffic now stops in both directions when the ped signal is activated.
That said, the signal operates only intermittently - sometimes on the first push, but other times only after the third push - and the default traffic signal coming down Fountain into the merge is now a green, rather than a flashing yellow. This presents in some ways an even more dangerous situation than before because the flashing yellow let drivers know to exercise caution when entering the merge. I have let TT&P know about the need to tweak the solution and they are working on it.
Fechado Chris Heitmann (Utilizador Registado)