Description
Concerned about the amount of speeding on Canner Street, specifically the stretch between Nicoll St. and Whitney Ave. Many people use the street as an alternative to Willow and/or Cold Spring, and I have been nearly hit at least once. Also, the Yale Shuttle speeds, and is too wide for the street. I see NHPD using Canner street very frequently, and am concerned that they too have gotten caught up in the frenzy.
Please slow down if you're cutting through on Canner! Sightlines are a pain around here, too. Kids are tough to spot with all the parked cars.
9 Comments
Anonymous
Canner is wider than Willow St. and the Yale Shuttle, inter-city buses and 18-wheelers routinely speed on Willow. The city won't even put pedestrian crossing signs on Willow St. - because - are you ready? "Willow St. is too narrow"! In other words: Eat s**t and die pedestrians. At least Canner St. has a few stop signs. The city won't even make the pedestrian crossing signal, @ Orange and Willow, responsive to pedestrians - cars get their cycle, before pedestrians get a chance to cross - which is why you have people push the cross walk button, nothing happens, then they cross, then, after the pedestrians are gone, traffic is stopped. Will someone at city hall please get a clue? Cold Spring, Canner and Willow are like traffic sewers draining into I91.
Justin Elicker (Guest)
A number of residents walked door to door in the fall and got people to sign a petition addressing speeding on Canner Street. I presented the petition to the Dept of Traffic and Parking. They were optimistic about installing some traffic calming measures. I'll keep you informed as to their progress.
Justin Elicker
Ward 10 Alderman
justin.elicker@gmail.com
Concerned Citizen (Guest)
I found out about the Canner Cut Through about a month ago and love it. But, I know what it is like to have people use your little neighborhood street like this and it sucks, so I never exceed 30mph. I wish people would realize they are already greatly speeding up their trip taking routes like this, so they should give back a little and slow it down where people live and there may be children (even though they are skipping school (I have seen teens hanging out during school hours two times on Canner in the last week).
flax (Guest)
was a horrible accident here overnight last night.
It was at 2:45am, it sounded like a speeding motorcycle.
Not the same kind of "speeding" as was referred to in the OP's concern... but still creepy. There's a lot of people out there, folks!
Justin Elicker (Guest)
Canner Street has had consistent complaints about dangerous driving. The Board of Aldermen is wrapping up the city's budget in a matter of days and from that point on we'll have a better idea of how much money is available to implement traffic calming infrastructure on streets like Canner's.
This is a high priority and I'll be working on it and have already been in a number of conversations with the city as to potential fixes. As you know, these things unfortunately take more time than one would like. Thanks for your patience.
Justin Elicker
Ward 10 Alderman
justin.elicker@gmail.com
Mark
Thank you Justin. I lived here for several years and it was indeed a major problem and quality of life issue.
If measures like curb extensions (like those used at Nash & Lawrence) can't be immediately installed, why not used temporary curb extensions? Many cities use these and they are very inexpensive.
Justin Elicker (Guest)
It looks like Traffic and Parking will start by putting yellow striping down the middle of the road (currently there is no striping at all.) They feel this will make the road feel less like an open road to drivers.
Although I'm very happy T&P is excited to work on this issue, I don't think this goes far enough and will keep working to see if we can't get additional traffic calming measures installed.
Justin Elicker
Ward 10 Alderman
justin.elicker@gmail.com
Mark
Did the residents who filled out a petition also submit a complete streets "project request form"?
Based on the design manual, this should be a traffic calmed residential street with a limit of no greater than 20 miles per hour... not another arterial street with a double striped lane like Willow.
Mark
The form is contained at www.cityofnewhaven.com/TrafficParking/pdfs/CS-Manual-04-05-10.pdf