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Two Whalley Ave crosswalks need attention!
Whalley and Fitch, and Whalley and West Rock both need 1. Longer walk signals. 2. walk signal to come on more frequently 3. sign in crosswalk alerting to high pedestrian village environment.
The Fitch cross, and especially the the West Rock extremely dangerous. whalley is very wide here, cars are flying. At west rock fountain and whalley converge. in both directions, cars speed and fly through lights because they are frustrated by the slow down into Westville village and want to try to get through it or out of it. Tough -- the mid-cross pedestrian signage changes driving attitudes and we want them.
Cross walk signage, in middle of the cross walk will help alert drivers that this is a village and to cool it.
The walk signals take too long to wait for and end too quickly, so you start running.
SOMEONE DO SOMETHING SOON
7 Faalladas
CT Livable Streets Campaign (Isticmaale Diiwaangashan)
I agree that longer walk signals are needed here.
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I'll also make sure that CT Livable Streets http://www.seeclickfix.com/watch_area/1019 acknowledges this issue -- they are using SeeClickFix to track locations with red light running at a statewide level.
To help them out, could you add more description about when the red light running occurs and the nature of it?
Anon (Martida)
Thank you. I can't provide an objective anaylsis as to when the light running happens the most. It is in broad daylight I've seen it.
Westville is this great village with one flaw -- state owned, Whalley, which is a major throughway.
Nothing would do more to temper speed than those freestanding plastic signs that go in the middle of the crosswalk and these two crosswalks are up there among New Haven crosswalks crying out for them.
Plus all kinds of paint and other psychologically effective crosswalk/pedestrian doodads that have proven to help chill drivers.
I know I instinctively cool it when I am driving and come to one of those mid-crosswalk signs.
Many drivers on Whalley have a sense of Whalley as a fly zone. Just AFTER it gets into the village it narrows to one lane each way.
Many don't get it, they don't adjust.
I am tired of running to make the walk signal as a young healthy adult. If I walked with a cane I would be tempted to call a cab. The length and frequency of the light really needs to be improved.
There are lots of young families with small children. Try hanging onto two kids and trying to figure out traffic from Whalley, West Rock, Fountain as they all converge in both directions, then cross very wide lanes here after waiting five minutes juggling kids for the three light transitions for three different streets (At least, plus left turn lights, one way lights) before it gets to Walk signal.
Also, state DOT should reconsider their denial of bike lane and other safestreet elements for Whalley rehabbing going on west of Westville. Stone Age Design!
CT Livable Streets Campaign (Isticmaale Diiwaangashan)
The lanes should be narrowed well in advance of the village.
Let's all remember that this area is where 4 or 5 pedestrians were severely injured by a vehicle a few months ago, and a few blocks from where 11-year old Gabrielle Lee was mowed down and killed by a hit and run driver.
Signage, paint - these are great ideas.
Personally speaking, when I bring out of town visitors to Westville, I sometimes get very embarrassed (in the way that one gets embarrassed of his "home" city) by the outlandish, sometimes even life-threateningly dangerous traffic conditions along Whalley.
It is such a beautiful village otherwise and it is a shame that city officials allowed ConnDOT to proceed with its disastrous plan for a highway here, even though the city's 2003 official comprehensive plan of development called for a "green" urban boulevard at the location.
La qiray Department of Transportation, Traffic and Parking (Isticmaale Diiwaangashan)
Chris Heitmann (Isticmaale Diiwaangashan)
CT Livable Streets Campaign (Isticmaale Diiwaangashan)
Chris, let us know if there is anything we can do to support the application.
In the meantime has the City reviewed crossing times at each intersection? There are a few that seem short.
Chris Heitmann (Isticmaale Diiwaangashan)