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Speeding traffic on Hasbrouck Avenue, illegal turns onto Livingston Street and cars going the wrong way on the Delaware Avenue one way street have created many fender benders here. Also cars trying to pass on Hasbrouck Avenue (heading toward East Chester Street) have crashed numerous times into a telephone pole on the SIDEWALK.
What would be a plausible solution? A traffic circle? Speed bumps? A four way traffic light?
21 Comments
citizen k (Guest)
Now with this kind of public attention, maybe that can get fixed.
If nothing else, with the speeding and such, it could be a great source for revenue for the city from speeding fines... how's that for a win-win...
Anonymous (Guest)
panther (Guest)
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Allison Gray Teetsel (Registered User)
Hasbrouck Avenue Citizen (Guest)
Well traffic still makes illegal 'left turns' coming across the overpass onto Livingston Street and traffic still makes illegal 'right turns' from Hasbrouck Avenue onto Livingston Street and sometimes even the wrong way down the Delaware Avenue "One Way." The signals are either unclear or are just being ignored.
Also last night a car came from the direction of the overpass toward the hospital and took the turn at the intersection in the wrong lane! The driver was completely over the double yellow line driving in the lane for oncoming traffic! Thank God nobody was walking, biking or driving there at that moment.
Wouldn't an additional traffic light at the Livingston, Delaware & Hasbrouck triangle help control he flow of traffic?
The traffic circles in Poughkeepsie near Vassar College seem to be working well. Is there enough room at this intersection for a large traffic circle?
Anonymous (Guest)
Seriously? (Registered User)
citizen k (Guest)
I could not honestly recommend any agency respond directly to this site: it is time consuming and way too argumentative... reference, Josh getting all tangled up on the bulletin boards in The West Wing...
Good that they look, but no, I would strongly advise against direct responses... especially as there can be so very many questions and complaints... and not a lot of good words, or thank.
I do suggest that any one of us can ask the question, get some answers, and post the result. Actually, I think that would be a real citizen contribution to helping out the city.
Hasbrouck Avenue Citizen (Guest)
This intersection does have a number of fender benders.
A solution requires planning, input and hard work (not to mention funding.)
This is a forum to create awareness and offer suggestions.
I'm glad it's hear where we can be heard. Not all of us have time off from work to attend meetings or visit the town hall or pw during 9-7 daytime hours.
Community Neighbor (Guest)
Also, know your alderman: your alderman does attend those meetings, and can carry your concerns to the right department. Your alderman is your only elected representative that must have your vote. There are two positions that are "at large": the mayor and the alderman at large: that won't work as well as calling your alderman.
Really: keep their name, email, phone number close at hand. By all means, post the concerns here, and if it's in your ward, point your alderman to the problem: it'll be right up here, dated, in writing.
Hasbrouck Avenue Citizen (Guest)
E Mamma (Guest)
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Gerald Berke (Registered User)
Bill Reynolds, oh so you're the ward that give us that guy... thanks but no thanks :-)
He's the majority leader of the council: I've seen him give two lame, annual, "state of the city" reports, where he was blown away by Andi Levin, polite and competent. The democratic council just lets that stuff happen.
I think Bill will be stepping down? if he's not, wow, now's your chance.
Andi Levin was pushing for term limits... something, that to my mind, would work not so much to get a democrat replaced by a republican but get an unsatisfactory incumbent out and replaced by a competent member of the party.
Bill does have a blog, but he writes to it just about not at all and interacts with people less.
If Bill is running, ouch... that's bad. Anyone opposing him? Can we go for a write in?
They have a strong mayoral candidate in Hayes, and those guys will come in on his coat tails, and Hayes is not likely to work against his party's candidates... he had to listen, silently with the rest of us, through 2 of Reynolds "state of the city"... But I do fear the Republicans... I mean, even Cahill, doesn't want to marry same sex couples, wants to give incentive money to small business to stay... no way he could have field tested those ideas...
Gerald Berke (Registered User)
Hasbrouck Avenue Citizen (Guest)
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Hasbrouck Avenue Resident (Guest)
The new lane and directional lines on the Route 9W overpass and on the corresponding traffic lanes look great! So far it looks as though the traffic is much better directed.
The no right turn sign heading East on Hasbrouck Avenue just before the Delaware & Livingston intersection could probably be better placed, or a 'Do not enter' sign at the back of the stop sign at the end of the Delaware one way where it intersects Hasbrouck Avenue might be easier for drivers to comprehend. [It is actually unclear whether the sign is there to indicate no turn onto Delaware (which is a one way) only or no right turn at all. Since traffic makes right turns onto Livingston Street often it appears that the sign is indicating no right turn onto the Delaware one way street.]