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Drivers are turning right onto Main street fro middle lane. Clearly marked as a through lane to train stop and Home Depot. One day someone in right lane turning right onto far left lane will get hit.
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Drivers are turning right onto Main street fro middle lane. Clearly marked as a through lane to train stop and Home Depot. One day someone in right lane turning right onto far left lane will get hit.
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BB (Utilizador Registado)
Hi Bob and Chief Lee,
I created a watch area for the Chief so he will receive alerts on unsafe driving in Derby.
Chief Lee, when started SeeClickFix we didn't think that driving complaints fit the non-emergency bill but Chief Lewis in New Haven has used the site many times to identify hot unsafe driving locations to issue tickets.
We have set-up watch areas for all of the LT's in New Haven. If you want help doing the same in Derby let us know and we'll help out. Also, you can set them up by clicking the "who's watching" button when you view this issue.
You can communicate back with citizens voicing their concerns here by simply commenting on the issue.
Thanks for bringing SeeClickFix to Derby by reporting Bob.
Happy New Year!
-Ben
Anonymous (Visitante)
I don't understand this description. To "turn right" onto main street that means you must be describing coming out of the home depot/train station. Other than someone being confused, I can't imagine someone lining up in the center lane to turn right.
If the issue is people exiting route 8 north and turning right over the bridge from the center lane, that is the way the lanes are marked. If you intend to turn left at Tailgators, that's your lane.
Please please let go of the idea that the solution to traffic problems is 1) traffic quieting, 2) handing out more tickets or 3) lowering speed limits - in the absence of any actual data that says a real hazard exists. "well, some day some idiot might..." do something is not good enough. I don't want to live in an idiot proof society - that never turns out well.
Anonymous (Visitante)
I just "got it" - someone going south on Route 8 doing the 15 mph 180 degree turn, then turning right to go under route 8 - but doing it from the center lane - probably intending to cross the bridge on the left lane. This is all part of the same "mess"... Probably those people have been trapped before with backed up traffic at the red light on the other exit ramp and get blocked and unable to change lanes to get over to the far left lane. The backup across the bridge during peak hours is made worse by that inappropriate stop sign put up on a major street to "solve" the death caused by a drug impaired driver and an inattentive parent. Can we reopen the need for that? I've never seen that flashing signal activated once since it was put up a few years ago
Let's identify the problem instead of the symptom.
Anonymous (Visitante)
Now that I understand the issue, I would challenge the word "clearly". There is no signage one way or the other - the pavement marking with a straight only arrow is barely visible - since we get snow here, pavement only marking is not adequate.
The traffic facing you has a protected turn (albeit maybe too short)... The other exit ramp has 2 right turn lanes for the same reasons.
I'm beating a dead horse maybe, but could we view traffic planning as a way to solve problems, not think up new ways to punish people?
Anonymous (Visitante)
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