BN area

dirt bike almost ran over a child on the Edgewood Ave mall. Please send police to monitor and stop these criminals!!!!

The street walkers were out in force this morning at Chapel-Derby at Winthrop. I drove by around 8:30 a.m. and they were flagging down cars.

Excessive noise. The city limits noise to 45 decibels in New Haven after 10pm. But some party which bordered on a riot at times peaked at 84 decibels at 10:30, and 80 decibels at 12:25. And I was a few houses away. The threats and cursewords shouted after midnight make me wonder if it is safe for my family to live here. Think of the poor guy killed while playing a computer game in his own home. I'm afraid to call the police, because then I'll be known as a snitch and it will become even more dangerous for us. But this seemed to be in the firehouse's front yard. Why didn't they do anything about it?

intersection of Winthrop and Edgewood. Accident there the other day proves need for some actual traffic engineering here. Drivers from right lane tend to move into left lane without looking (similar things happen in parallel protected left turn lanes all over the city). A traffic circle might solve this, if people knew how to use them... But the city has a major safety problem here. I wonder how many accidents per annum? Anyone?

The building on the southeast corner of Chapel and Norton has been tagged with graffiti. See photo.

According to this article as well as earlier conversations with the City, the planned sharrows and bike route signs (which had already been delayed by a year) were scheduled to go in last week.

Does anyone know what is causing the delay?

http://www.newhavenindependent.org/index.php/archives/entry/prepare_to_share/

Blacktop has been poured in place of concrete.

Quads and ATVs are riding in the sidewalk right now at 364 Edgewood avenue. They are being stored at this address and the house is a gathering place for other dirt bike and atv riders. Police: please investigate and confiscate these illegal machines!

Can we please put up a wrought iron fence along the perimeter of the Edgewood mall like there is at Wooster square and other parks? This will prevent people from driving cars, dirt bikes and ATVs on the mall. They are destroying the green space.

ATVs are driving up and down Edgewood avenue between Winthrop and Ella t Grasso. They are also riding on the sidewalks.