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Name withheld by unpopular law abiding citizen (Guest)

Issue ID:

11670

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Neighborhood:

Orange

Reported:

on 01/04/2010

Description

Cars are speeding on Route 34 in Orange, some doing over 70 MPH. When I turn onto Route 34 from North Indian Hill Road, the curve of Route 34 at that spots means that a car doing even 60 MPH will not be visible to me in time while making the decision to turn onto 34 (a car doing OVER 70 was able to shift into the left lane in time, barely missing the car in the left lane and me, should I mention the combination of dealer plates and dealer logo on the car?). Ironically, the speed limit drops to 25 MPH shortly after this, and cars flying by me while I am doing 45 MPH are ignored by police cars parked along the road (the car dealer's car was still doing 70 there, I clocked him up to 60 and he was still pulling away). I only do 45 in that area because people have challenged me to fights when I did the speed limit, which I agree is absurdly low, but it is what it is and should be enforced. They should put up signs with lights that say 25 MPH WHEN LIT, but that is not my call. I called the Orange Police Department two years ago and they said the "radar sign" was booked and so it would be awhile. It is now 2 years and counting.

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7 Comments

Richard Garrett (Guest)

Perhaps additional traffic calming devices can be budgeted under the stimulus package. *removed for advertising* is the lowest cost solution that has proven effectiveness in over 40 states.

01/05/2010 · Flag Flagged
Anonymous (Guest)

If NIMBYs hadn't blocked the plan to make route 34 a limited access road, we wouldn't have this problem, would we?

04/22/2010 · Flag Flagged
Brad (Guest)

I didn't know anything about making 34 a limited access road, possibly before my time, but I guess NIMBY's can be a pain. Be that as it may, it is not a limited access highway, so the point remains. There are hundreds of businesses and thousands of house within a few feet of 34, so I think there really would be a lot of opposition to making it a limited access highway. The state does lack an appropriate way to get from 95 to 84 in southwestern Connecticut, but I always thought Route 7 might be a better candidate for limited access to 84, it is more in the middle of the NY State Thruway and 91, whereas 34 is most of the way to 91 already. Of course, the NIMBYs in that area have more money and clout.

04/22/2010 · Flag Flagged
Anonymous (Guest)

In New Haven, they built the connector with I 95, and an underpass under the parking garage and tore down an entire block wide swath to build a freeway (that land is now parking lots). The road was supposed to go up to at least Route 8. That plan was scrapped and now a medical building was built on the land by the parking garage, basically ending any possibility of bringing back the original plan. So we have congestion, dangerous intersections, high unemployment, empty shopping centers and an unfinished redevelopment project . An old timer told me there was a plan to put route 34 on a bridge starting on the hill above the gas station and getting it off of main street entirely. That might be the same plan for the Super 34 that was ditched - it's before my time

04/23/2010 · Flag Flagged
Anonymous (Guest)

It's interesting the original poster admits they "clocked" the speeder by driving their own car at 60 mph in pursuit, but thinks they are law abiding...

To be clear, I view the "problem" to not be the occasional speeder, but the dangerous condition created by having people on side roads with limited lines of sight trying to pull out into a road designed to be a through road with a median seperator. Had the road been completed, traffic would be entering 34 from high speed entrance ramps, probably from a parallel service road with a speed limit appropriate for a feeder road intersecting with residential streets.

04/23/2010 · Flag Flagged
Name withheld by USUALLY law abiding citizen (Guest)

I confess to breaking the law in that instance, but I wanted to see how fast he was going after having been nearly killed, and testosterone is testosterone. I accelerated up to 60 in a 45, when I saw him coming at me in the rearview mirror you can be sure I stomped on it, and noted he was still pulling away quite fast. Then I slowed down by the time I reached the 25 MPH zone, about a mile down. I also regularly drive 45MPH in the 25MPH zone so I don't get tailgated, honked at, screamed at or flipped off. Yesterday the traffic was 50 going past a police cruiser at the gas station, who just watched. You try doing the speed limit there during rush hour.
The speed limits on 34 are appropriate, they are simply disregarded and unenforced.

04/23/2010 · Flag Flagged
Closed bille (Guest)

Call the police and or learn how to merge into traffic. What else can be said?

05/04/2010 · Flag Flagged

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