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Please make Hillegass a Slow Street!
I live on the corner of 63rd and Hillegass and we have a lot of foot traffic crossing here and at 62nd to get to the businesses on College Avenue. However, drivers routinely speed too fast down Hillegass and rarely come to a full stop (and some barely slow down) at the intersections, which are not marked for pedestrian crossing even though they are used heavily. The intersections at Alcatraz and Claremont are also dangerous for pedestrians.
This problem got significantly worse after the College/Claremont Safeway reopened and with driving apps like Google Maps and Waze directing drivers on to Hillegass in order to avoid College/Claremont slow down. Declaring Colby a Slow Street has been a boon to our neighborhood but unfortunately it has also forced some additional car traffic onto Hillegass, exacerbating the problem.
Please consider making Hillegass a Slow Street. It is a residential street that is being treated as a traffic artery by drivers to get from Claremont to Alcatraz and who are making it unsafe for people who live here and want to travel on foot or by bicycle.
also asked...
A. I like the program but want to make Hillegass a Slow Street as well as Colby. They are both residential streets with lots of pedestrian and bike traffic.
A. Colby St (Woolsey St to Claremont Ave)
16 Comments
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Dianne Macleod (Registered User)
Dianne Macleod
Emma Armstrong (Registered User)
nina (Registered User)
Ilona (Registered User)
Andrew Armstrong (Registered User)
Erik Woodhouse (Registered User)
Tom (Registered User)
nina (Registered User)
Also, our proximity to College means that we bear the brunt of the trucks and commercial vehicles in the immediate area, along with the overflow of motorists from Colby. It is a sad fact that despite the speed bumps and stop signs on Hillegass, motorists routinely give them short shrift at best and ignore them at worst.
Making Hillegass a Slow Street might alleviate some of the pedestrian/bicycle traffic on Colby; designating them both as Slow Streets might be the most effective traffic-calming method, but I do not live on Colby so I certainly understand if your assessment is different than mine. We're all adjusting to the challenges of the pandemic, and finding new ways to get around -- but safety should be uppermost in future changes, and Hillegass traffic is most assuredly not safe!
S Bianco (Registered User)
Will all or some of the slow streets be opened up now that there is significantly more traffic on the roads?
Tom (Registered User)
S Bianco (Registered User)
ratgrrrl (Registered User)
nina (Registered User)
as someone who lives on Hillegass, I am all in for traffic-calming measures, and would love to hear some suggestions how that might be achieved!! Unfortunately, the stop signs and speed bumps do not do the trick, as we witness every day.
Note: The small shops are supported not just by those who drive to the neighborhood, but are also heavily patronized by those of us who live here.
I would say that for those of us who actually experience the daily problems of this residential street being used as a heavily-traveled north/south artery, our significant safety concerns might outweigh the acknowledged inconvenience for those who shop around the corner from time to time and who would have to locate parking a little further from their store of choice (we all know the frustration that can cause).
tonk (Registered User)
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