I agree with Michael D. There are many other tickets open about this very issue and it really needs to be addressed with a crosswalk and other warning markings.

Do a crosswalk but also install yield markings and 15 MPH speed limit markings in advance of the walk.

People are getting seriously injured at this intersection on a regular basis and it is only a matter of time before someone is killed. Please address this issue ASAP.

i walk across this intersection multiple times per day for my job, and i am afraid of getting killed. there is a legal crosswalk extending from the sidewalks on audubon across whitney, but no paint to show it. whitney is so wide at its start - make some angled parking on the even-side of whitney between grove and audubon to try and slow down the traffic, plus add parking spaces?

cross walk is very much needed to start. just some paint.

I couldn't count how many accidents or near-accidents I've seen in the seven years I've worked in that area. Does it take someone to get killed before anything is done about this? Wake up!

This issue is similar to 2-3 others reported at the exact same intersection -- maybe there should be a way to aggregate issues? Or create a "identical issues nearby" feed that users could select/identify?

Put in a median with flower beds to add some green, slow traffic and provide a safety spot for pedestrians crossing the street.

Agreed, this is such a no-brainer, it ought to be tops on the city's priority list. I attempt to cross here once/twice a week with my two young daughters to get from NMS over to the deli, Clark's or just to our parked car and drivers could NOT CARE LESS about letting anyone cross.

In the short-term, the city should stripe two crosswalks here across Whitney, or maybe just stripe the whole intersection. Long-term, add curb extensions where possible and ramps, obviously, or even raise the entire intersection.

This would be good for the hundreds of students, from pre-school through grad school, for nearby workers, for current businesses already contending with the detrimental one-way traffic, for filling the many long-standing vacancies on Audubon Street, and the list goes on. The only downside might be a few second delay for drivers before having to sit at the light at Trumbull. To have zero safe crossings between Grove and Trumbull in what is an otherwise pedestrian-oriented downtown area just boggles the mind.

Another place where one of these raised cross-walks would be appropriate.

I agree with Melissa.

I work nearby.
Orange and Audubon it has the same situation, a lot of traffic driving too fast, frequent accidents happen and very active corner bicycles, pedestrian fighting with cars just to cross over. In my lunch time I have the other adventure to get cross Whitney and Audubon. cars passing to fast and no stopping.

No action from the powers that be. I have had interaction with city administration, still no action. I give up - and you still can't cross the street without making out a will first.

There are identical issues to this still open, so I don't think this ticket is worth closing yet. We need to be able to refer to these comments and testimony in order to advocate for a fix. It is something that really needs to be addressed.

Don't give up - Issue #23 (about installing walk signals on Route 34) took the city two years to address, even though it was a spot with several fatalities and severe injuries, but they eventually did do something.

Does anyone want to start a simple online petition / website documenting all of these comments? That would probably be the next step to increase the pressure. Once a site was live, it could be more easily distributed to surrounding businesses, residents and parents using area schools. I am happy to help advise on creating one--, just need someone to volunteer 2 or 3 hours of their time.

I am sorry to say there has been NO action on the part of the City to protect the lives of men, women, and children from the inordinate speed of drivers in this area. Standing there, looking back up Whitney towards Church, it is more than obvious that the rise in the street totally obscures the view of a driver to what he is likely to encounter, and that that same rise does the same for the pedestrian. Slow the traffic with "sleeping policemen", as they are called in Britain, or spend some money on paint and indicate a crossing zone for the sake of this City's citizens. Amen.

I have worked at 33 Whitney ave. for 11 years and it's still unsafe to cross, truck, more than one parked in the street you have to poke your head out to look for cars and one time a bus was coming and a man head was stuck out looking to cross and almost got his head off by the bus. drivers does not give you any lead way to cross and lunch time hours forget it you spend your half hour in the street trying to cross, when they have any kind of construction it's bad, bad, 4 cops just talking to each other and you are trying to get cross, why 4 for one site. This crossing is in very much need of some kind of safety rules to cross. People are always trying to cross with kids and strollers i help them cross if i am out there but god it's hard, it seems the mayor can get upper Chapel St. looking good and safe but the rest forget it. Veronica Marshall

I've proposed elsewhere that they should narrow the road here to one lane so that it's safer for drivers and pedestrians to navigate, and for delivery trucks to park temporarily.

Delivery trucks already park temp. and one lane people will never get cross because cars does not give them any right away, it needs a light so PEOPLE can cross on RED and cars can GO on GREEN. We will have a line of people trying to cross and a line of cars trying to go.

Everyone please to call your Alderperson, plus the city's engineering / traffic departments, and note this is an issue.

Despite numerous postings on SeeClickFix with dozens of votes, the word has not gotten through to anyone at City Hall that anyone cares about this intersection. We have gone to several in person meetings there recently but they need to hear from more than a couple people on this.

It's great to vote on this site, but if more than two or three people don't go in person to City Hall and explain the nature of the problem here (or at least make a phone call or send an email about it), it is unlikely to be taken seriously. One phone call can make a huge difference.

Please post here if you make any contacts or get responses.

Lost cause. City not interested in protecting us against the swift egress of motor vehicles.