Deskripsyon
I was able to take a PERFECT photo Friday morning to depict the nightmare Derby (and perhaps Ansonia) has created by not re-configuring the intersection of Wakelee and Division before the new Route 8 on ramp opened.
I’ve heard that Griffin wouldn’t sell land needed (which should have then been taken by eminent domain) but it will just be a matter of time, especially this winter, before a vehicle is struck and someone seriously hurt or killed because of this lack of foresight.
Here we have it. I am at the stop sign on Division. I have FIVE cars behind me. You can see two of the three cars waiting for their turn at the top sign to my right. There are cars coming from my left also AND to top off the nightmare I can’t move forward because the tiny cue between my stop sign and the signal is not large enough to fit the necessary number of vehicles.
So, I get to back up Division Street until there is space for me to move through the intersection unless I wish to sit in the middle of it risking an almost certain accident.
This mess occurs mostly in the morning and evening rush hours periods.
We can spend lots of money laying brick crosswalks and I guess on upcoming legal fees when someone is hit because these cities dropped the ball but not to take necessary land and pay to re-design this intersection.
I trust people are already working on a solution…
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special treatment (Rehistradong User)
Isang anonimong user ng SeeClickFix (Rehistradong User)
WOW! I was stunned to see this posted here as I had seen the same thing. So, I waited and snapped a pic yesterday. This is horrific. Two school buses, neither can fit in the far too small space before the signal (after stopping at the sign before it) and now the last is not only blocking a crosswalk.its partially IN Grove Street.
A motorist runs the stop sign on Grove and that bus is hit full force with school children in it! Not to mention traffic that wishes to proceed to the signal from the THREE streets on that side of the signal (Grover, Division and one I can't name) can't proceed so traffic is backing up at the three stop signs until that signal finally turns green (takes far too long) and the buses can move out of harm's way.
So, Ansonia and Derby you've put school children in danger by not re configuring this intersection during the YEARS you had before the entrance ramp was constructed. No, it's not going to be cheap of easy to get rid of that triangle and make at last four streets meet at ONE intersection in a way that is safe to navigate but someone best be on this.
I can't believe others have not chimed in. They will when they or someone they love has been hurt.
Isinara john (Rehistradong User)