Description
Lyon Street has parking on both sides of the street past Jefferson but only on one side here. If you allow parking on both sides of the street, it would reduce parking congestion, slow cars down (it is so wide, cars race down the street - especially LEAP vans) and would not obstruct fire trucks since the other half of the street has parking on both sides. The City recently addressed the downtown workers' cars who were adding to the congestion - Thanks! Now we need parking on both sides of the street, particularly while street sweeping on the one side of the street that allows parking as the whole street has nowhere to park.
25 Comments
CT Livable Streets Campaign (Registered User)
Brian Tang (Registered User)
Richard (Guest)
Pedro (Guest)
Speaking of LEAP vans, we might have to set up a seperate Clicket for them specifically or perhaps contact LEAP as a community. They frequently tear down Lyon at very high speeds, and then when they get to LEAP they simply stop in the middle of Jefferson street and block traffic while they load and unload. Several days ago 4 cars were waiting while the people in the Leap van were having a conversation with the light cycling twice. This was while there was a clear spot to the left that the van could have pulled into.
Richard (Guest)
Speaking of speeding Leap vans. One of them actually sped up when he saw me crossing the street in front of him.
M (Guest)
Those with driveways should be encouraged to use them more efficiently and provide more access to their tenants. This alone would alleviate the parking overflow.
These measures combined with limiting non-residential parking would go a long way to fixing the problem without destroying the aesthetics.
I have spoken with city parking about these suggestions and they are willing to listen and talk. I suggest we organize a neighborhood meeting and reach a consensus and present it to the parking dept.
Pedro (Guest)
Many cars came and parked illegally on both sides, ending up in a very nice demonstration!
Pedro (Guest)
Jeffrey Kerekes (Guest)
Anonymous (Guest)
City of New Haven Neighbor (Guest)
Those are the distances from the curb (or depths), what are the lengths of each space?
thanks!
Jeffrey Kerekes (Guest)
City of New Haven Neighbor (Guest)
Jeffrey Kerekes (Registered User)
Ashley Kremser (Registered User)
Jeffrey Kerekes (Registered User)
davids (Guest)
LongTimeResident (Guest)
Doug Hausladen (Registered User)
LyonResident (Guest)
City of New Haven (Verified Official)
Closed Jeffrey Kerekes (Registered User)
LocalMusician (Registered User)
LocalMusician (Registered User)
Jeffrey Kerekes (Registered User)