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A basketball hoop has been set-up at the curb on Ley Street. Children and young adults are using the hoop to play basketball at all hours of the day and night. Vehicles often have to stop of move around youths in the street to avoid hitting them. There is the potential for a youth to be injured by a passing vehicle, parked cars risk being damaged, and the constant sound of a basketball being bounced over and over is rather annoying. Isn't there a law prohibiting the set-up of a basketball hoop at the curb?
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The homeowner is responsible?? What about the parents of the children? If they let their children play in the street, maybe DCF should hold them accountable for the inevitable accident that is coming, rather than the homeowner.
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Closed Brian Tang (Registered User)
I'm sorry that the hoop fell over. Perhaps they should put water in the base to keep it upright.
More generally, however, local streets are our most important public space. If this were on a major arterial, that would be one matter, but since this is a local street, for use by local residents who live on the block to access their homes, the movement of through automobile traffic should not be the priority. If you need to get someplace not on that block, just take Burr Street. If you are using Ley Street as a cut-through route, you are the problem, not the people who live there.
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I bicycle past basketball hoops on the street in Hamden all the time and I don't mind at all because I recognize that I am the visitor/guest on those streets and that I should behave myself accordingly.
If any action should be taken, it should be to close the street to through traffic and keep it open for local access only.
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Brian Tang (Registered User)
You know, it is possible to prevent cut-through traffic with a pretty simple traffic control device. It's called a "half closure." The city installed one at the intersection of Fredrick and Fowler in the Amity section of Westville. In that case, it made the block of Fowler between Fairfield and Fredrick two-way for local traffic, but one-way for through traffic. It was a simple and cheap version (a Do Not Enter sign placed in the middle of the street), but they can be designed to be much more attractive (by instead blocking the lane with a planted area, for example).
Speed humps can also be reasonably effective at discouraging, or at least slowing down, cut-through traffic, especially if paired with other traffic calming enhancements. I think this would be worth asking your alder person about. Surely the cut-through traffic creates all sorts of problems other than threatening children and adults playing on your street.
You have my sympathies and I wish you the best of luck in discouraging cut-through traffic and in calming the traffic on your street. Let me know if your alder person doesn't understand traffic calming or if I can be of assistance in any other way.
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Brian Tang (Registered User)
I think you need to question your assumptions, Opinion, because they are making you look ridiculous. New Haven's streets existed for over two hundred years before the invention of the automobile. Even sleepy ol' Morris Cove originally developed as a community based around a streetcar line (which incidentally passed one block to the south on Concord Street). New Haven's streets were unpaved or paved only with cobblestones until the early 1900s. By 1896, a decade before even early automobiles arrived on the scene, cyclists, yes the bicycling precursor to AAA, lobbied the state legislature to regulate bicycle etiquette. This is the origin of Connecticut's vehicle laws. (The automobile was on nobody's mind when our moving vehicle laws were passed.) Meanwhile, it was also the cyclists who lobbied city government to pave over the old cobblestone and brick streets with smooth asfalt that would be better for cycling.
I don't blame you for thinking that New Haven's streets were built to serve the automobile. For the most part, we have gone well out of our way over the past half century to modify them to exclude all other users. It is important to recognize, however, that our streets become inhospitable only when we choose to make them that way. The fact is, anyone who runs a child off of the road is being a jerk, especially when the driver is a guest in the neighborhood and the child lives there. Speeding down a local street like this is a rude and inconsiderate thing to do. Why should we bend over backward to accommodate such behavior?
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Reopened Alderwoman Alfreda J Edwards (Registered User)
However, I will speak to the police LT in the area and see what can be done and i welcome your concern's thank you Alderwoman of this area Alfreda J Edwards
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