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City Director of Transportation ignoring traffic laws. At 12:13 pm, Fri Sep 16, Director of Transportation Doug Hausladen was on the corner Church and Chapel taking cellphone pictures, he crossed with the pedestrian walk sign diagonally across Chapel to the corner of the Green. He then walked up a ways, and instead of using the mid Church Street cross walk 10 ft away, chose to walk across the three lanes of Church Street while traffic was legally turning from Chapel, causing several cars to have to slow down while he sauntered across still looking at his cell phone. Hard to encourage responsible following of traffic laws, crosswalks, walk signals by city residents when even the Director of Transportation ignores them!
12 Comments
Josh (Registered User)
cityofnewhaven (Registered User)
Pedestrians have been struck in the area around the Green for not using crosswalks (and cars/bikes going too fast).
It takes 20 seconds to go over to a legal crosswalk and wait for a walk signal. If bikes and cars have to follow the rules, so do pedestrians. If we all did, we all would be happier and safer.
XYZ (Registered User)
Acknowledged Doug Hausladen (Registered User)
Thank you for posting; I take traffic safety seriously and the rules of the road more seriously. I was documenting the state of traffic per the duties of my job at 12:11pm and am heading back out to continue to do the work I have been tasked to do.
Thank you for posting; it's a good reminder.
Doug Hausladen (Registered User)
Doug Hausladen (Registered User)
Doug Hausladen (Registered User)
Closed Doug Hausladen (Registered User)
Anonny (Registered User)
XYZ (Registered User)
cityofnewhaven (Registered User)
Josh (Registered User)