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A traffic circle is currently being installed. Are you serious?!?!?! We need help on Forest/Rt22 and West Elm - due to congestion and high risk of accidents and THIS is how the city decides to waste money?!?!?!?
A circle didnt even need to be put there, there are no real issues at that point. So why was it installed there? Looks?! Speeding? What the heck?!
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RL (ضيف)
I ride a scooter to work and used to take this route. The loop around the circle is too tight for me to navigate safely, so now I have to ride on Whalley instead, which is much more dangerous.
Thanks alot! :(
cp (ضيف)
kyle.connecticut (ضيف)
245 W. Park (ضيف)
E (مستخدم مسجل)
Heres a thought about speeders - cops doing their jobs and ticketing! I will say I have seen a slight improvement in the past few months but it still needs to get better.
If cops gave more tickets for illegal driving, then drivers would start obeying the laws more. I have driven in CT, NY, MA and NJ and CT drivers are the worst! Why? Because they know there is no consequences to their dangerous driving habits.
Uncle Egg (ضيف)
Sarah (ضيف)
Uncle Egg (ضيف)
@E: I'd much prefer to design safer roads than devote precious (and costly!) police resources to this problem.
Even if you increase police presence, at best they'll be there a tiny percentage of the time. If you redesign the road to discourage speeding, it slows traffic all the time.
I encourage you to take a drive down Townsend Avenue in the Annex to see how this works. Cars used to fly by just a few feet away from children playing, but the traffic circles and other calming measures that have been put in place there make speeding all but impossible.
OMEGADraco (مستخدم مسجل)
Roundabout the wrong way (ضيف)
Although I agree that traffic at this intersection has a history of exceeding speed limits and safety, i have to believe that city money would have been better spent on a stop sign.
Yes, traffic circles feel chaotic and counterintuitive and most people enter them cautiously. But that's just until they "get used" to them. I now live out of state, where they have been steadily installing these blasted traffic circles for years. Some of the worst accidents that i've seen occur in traffic circles.
And just wait until the plows try to move through them! All those beautiful stone curbs they just installed will be reduced to gravel in no time at all.
CT Livable Streets Campaign (مستخدم مسجل)
There is already an issue on this: http://www.seeclickfix.com/issues/252
Roundabouts like these provide safe and efficient traffic flow and make use of extensive safety and traffic research conducted over the past 25 years. Studies by the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS) show that roundabouts provide a 90% reduction in fatal crashes and a 76% reduction in injury crashes. Other studies show that roundabouts prevent over 95% of crash fatalities (which is actually a different # from the # of fatal crashes) and virtually eliminate head on collisions.
E (مستخدم مسجل)
I think you guys are missing the point! I completely AGREE with roundabouts/circles.
My anger is that one was installed in an area that didn't necessarily need it. Regardless of the problems there - speeding is a problem all throughout CT. Not just that street. Yet West Park gets attention first?! Please! The money to build it should have gone where its most necessary - a pecking order.
W.Elm/Forest has WAY more issues then West Park will ever have (speeding, winter issues, blind spots, backups, near collisions, etc - all in one small spot) and they attend to West Park first?!?!?! Give me a break!
This is VERY disturbing!
juli (مستخدم مسجل)
E (ضيف)
مغلق CT Livable Streets Campaign (مستخدم مسجل)
The traffic circle is installed and, on balance, the neighborhood has been highly receptive.
Please install more!