Description
There is the persistent problem of cars speeding on Edgewood Avenue, near the intersections of McKinley and Alston day and night. Chapel street neighbors complained and got a police presence and a device that measures, records, and posts cars' speeds which seems to have helped over the past few weeks. Please come on over to Edgewood near McKinley and help us now!
16 Commentaires
FAMILYTIES (Invité)
Speeding and racing near McKinley and Chapel toward Forest Road is also a major problem in regard to noise and safety.
Chris Heitmann (Invité)
Andy O (Utilisateur inscrit)
CT Livable Streets Campaign (Utilisateur inscrit)
Please see related issue, http://www.seeclickfix.com/issues/9099-speeding-cars-on-alden-ave .
Just checking in to see if there has been progress on this.
CT Livable Streets Campaign (Utilisateur inscrit)
barbfam (Utilisateur inscrit)
design meets reality (Invité)
Essentially, the speed limit is a design problem. The roads are designed to allow people to drive much faster than the stated limits. Do you ever see anyone driving 50 mph on I95? Even simple things, like a piece of rope, or water, on the road, make most people drive more slowly. I "water" the road, in the morning, when I water my garden, and people speeding, on my street, tend to shave about ten miles an hour off of their speed - you can hear them backing off of the throttle.
Also, while there have, on occasion, been police doing speed enforcement, in East Rock, the cops usually park in a spot where they are visible to speeding drivers, so no, or very few tickets get written. Also, if the cop is writing a ticket, everyone else just speeds past, as they realize the cop is occupied. Really, the American "love affair" i.e. abusive relationship with the car needs to be seriously re-evaluated.
design meets reality (Invité)
CT Livable Streets Campaign (Utilisateur inscrit)
Cool idea, design meets reality.
I like the idea of props and street theater, too, which some residents have recently floated around as an occasional solution to be deployed.
In Fair Haven, we also gave out cookies to passing drivers.
In the long term, I maintain that an infrastructure solution is needed. That is why I think neighbors need to request that more Complete Streets forms be completed (see other issue linked below).
Clos City of New Haven (Membre officiel vérifié)
Réouvert barbfam (Invité)
City of New Haven (Membre officiel vérifié)
barbfam (Invité)
CT Livable Streets Campaign (Utilisateur inscrit)
barbfam (Utilisateur inscrit)
Clos Manager of Operations, Process Improvement - Transportation, Traffic, & Parking (Membre officiel vérifié)