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Traffic calming, like Ped refuge islands similar to those installed on Edwards St are needed before the next speeding driver flips his car and kills 20 people.
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Traffic calming, like Ped refuge islands similar to those installed on Edwards St are needed before the next speeding driver flips his car and kills 20 people.
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anonymous (Registered User)
Resident3 (Guest)
Frustrated and unsafe (Guest)
newhavengill (Registered User)
Cars race up and down Central, Alden, Edgewood and Chapel all day long. Alderman Marchand just added a Ped Crossing sign to the intersection of W Elm St and Alden which is helping. More needs to be done though.
There is a more over arching theme of a lack of police presence in Westville. I understand police resources are limited but a few drive throughs a day would help.
BB (Registered User)
CT Livable Streets Campaign (Registered User)
Ben: If you look at the new Yale University report on dangerous intersections, linked from http://www.yalealumnimagazine.com/blog/?p=15762 you'll see this is somewhat of a hotspot. If nothing is done, therefore, it is all but guaranteed that more people will be injured here in the near future.
On College & Chapel, just narrowing the lanes might help reduce speeds.
Gill: I totally agree. Interestingly, a neighbor requested that pedestrian crossing sign on SeeClickFix, and it appeared about two days later. Thank you to Jim Travers, and anyone else who may have helped get it to appear at that location so quickly. Regarding police presence, has anyone asked the NHPD how many tickets have been given out specifically in your immediate neighborhood (not including I-95, Whalley Avenue, etc) for the following illegal behaviors over the past 2 years?
1) Speeding
2) Noise violations
3) Running red lights
I would not be surprised if the answer is "close to 0" for all of the above. In NYC, a review of neighborhood ticketing found that the police gave out more tickets to cyclists than to red light runners in many areas. I rarely see traffic stops on this part of Chapel Street, or in Westville.
newhavengill (Registered User)
CT Livable Streets Campaign (Registered User)
The Alderman requested those statistics in a 2011 letter to Mayor DeStefano, which was signed by many of the current Aldermen as well as representatives from all 12 of the City's Community Management Teams:
http://library.constantcontact.com/download/get/file/1101479047374-39/Safe+Streets+Letter+to+Mayor+DeStefano+082411r.pdf
See request item #1
newhavengill (Registered User)
CT Livable Streets Campaign (Registered User)
CT Livable Streets Campaign (Registered User)
http://library.constantcontact.com/download/get/file/1101479047374-39/Safe+Streets+Letter+to+Mayor+DeStefano+082411r.pdf
Rob Smuts (Registered User)
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