Description
When the intersection of Main and Division was redone adding in left turn signals, southbound traffic on main street regularly ignores that the left lane is now left turn only and people go straight. The left turn lane is marked pretty clearly. Since it is on the Ansonia/Derby boundary, there may be a jurisdiction issue on trying to enforce violations...?
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seymoursoftballmom (Guest)
Fred (Guest)
Hi Mom,
Now would you like to make a substantive observation? I would fix the speeling error, but I see no way to do that.
Anonymous (Guest)
This sounds like a hazardous situation. Maybe some bollards could be added between the turn lane and the other lane?
This would calm traffic as well as eliminating the danger from weaving cars.
Fred (Guest)
(How many decades do I have to live here in the valley before I am allowed to ask questions?)
matt (Guest)
Water Street Two Way (Guest)
Astro (Guest)
matt (Guest)
Fred (Guest)
This morning, a police car was parked in the pizza place watching. Coming back from Big Y, the speed limit coming up by the muffler place is posted as 25 MPH, not 30 - is that a change? It seemed different.
Long term, the only real fix is the expensive one - tear down the house on the corner and straighten and widen the intersection and clear the sight lines.
In other places I've lived, part of the zoning / land use rules was that a business on a corner could not have a driveway entrance closer than "nnn" feet from the intersection (I'm thinking it was 100 feet). The driveway for the gas station and the resulting push back of the "stop here" line to avoid blocking the driveway is a major factor in this problem, but I feel certain the situation is grandfathered back from when it was a buggy whip shop in the 1800s...
Closed Fred (Guest)