Description
Ever since you removed the road block from the corner of sergeant and woodland street cars and motorcyles use this street to drag race. I've called and my neighbors have spoken to the police on several occasions about our concerns. They have given tickets but it has not solved the problem. I would like to work with you and the Htfd PD to effectively solve the problem. We all have several young children living in our homes and they aren't safe to play in their own yards!!!
also asked...
Q. What street and between what two streets (if needed) would you like to request for a speed bump?
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3 Comments
Acknowledged Hartford's 311 (Registered User)
LMHtfd (Registered User)
That road block, which was in place since the late 1970s, was removed without any notice to or consultation of the residents of Sargeant Street, especially those residing on the first block which is the most directly affected. Sargeant Street is now a truck route and a major thoroughfare for all the traffic trying to avoid the EIGHT traffic lights on Woodland street between Homestead and Woodland Streets, and the endless wait at the three-way intersection of Atwood and Woodland (governed by only one stop sign).
Further, eastbound on Sargeant from Woodland, the first intersection is blind due to the overgrown shrubbery on the NW corner lot. It's a three-way intersection where only the Atwood corner has a stop sign. Before I moved away I saw many close calls as well as heard several collisions there in the space of a few months. Cars roll into the intersection from Atwood because they can't see up the street, and speeders just don't care anyway.
I can't imagine why planners (or whoever it is who made the ill-guided decision to remove the barriers) did not anticipate the increased traffic load on the street with the hospital nearby and numerous trucks travelling off downtown off-ramps to all points westward. The concrete blocks in the road were ugly, but it must have been considered easier to take them out than to put in some planters or something permanent that would serve a purpose as well as not look like a salvage from a construction yard.
Unfortunately, the two-way traffic was the last straw. There were many quality of life issues making the neighborhood harder and harder to tolerate. The addition of even more speeding, daily block-long traffic jams at rush hour, and numerous box trucks and semis passing through means I don't miss living there at all.
Closed Hartford's 311 (Registered User)
These requests must be submitted to your local NRZ (Neighborhood Revitalization Zone) group for consideration. If the NRZ leadership considers the street a viable location for assessment, they must forward the request in writing to the City Engineer, City of Hartford, 50 Jennings Road, Hartford, Connecticut 06120.
The link below provides the application procedure and a sample endorsement letter.
http://www.hartford.gov/images/DPW/APPLICATION_FOR__SPEED_HUMPS_INSTALLATION.pdf
If you do not know your local NRZ contact, you can call the Hartford 311 Call Center at 860-757-9311 to obtain that information.