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There is a constant stream of dangerously fast traffic on Chapel Street in Wooster Square. This is a residential neighborhood with a lot of pedestrians and a school nearby. The City needs to install some traffic calming measures to make this area safer for residents.
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juli (Registered User)
i completely agree with this.
when i am biking out of the city on this route, the traffic is almost always VERY aggressive, despite the narrow streets and presence of many pedestrians (often children).
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Jessica Johnson (Registered User)
On 04/22/12 at about 2:00 in the morning, a man driving west on Chapel Street through the Chapel/Chestnut intersection (at Fuel & Conte School) managed to do this to our car. Thank goodness he had insurance, because the total repair bill came to just over $6300. As you can see, both driver's side hubcaps were completely destroyed, the mirror broken off, and part of the area around the gas cap crushed. The entire rear axel was broken and had to be replaced, as well as needing a new wheel. The car was shoved some distance forward, and both hubcaps on the passenger's side were smashed as they impacted the curb.
This was not someone driving even vaguely near the speed limit. The same person plowed into a red Dodge parked in front of our car, shoving it several car lengths forward from where it had been parked, breaking its back bumper and probably the rear axel as well. I can post a photo of that car too.
This reckless driver was clearly driving very dangerously over the speed limit, and nearly totaled TWO vehicles parked on Chapel St. This is where we live, this is where we park. We need traffic calming measures on this part of Chapel!!! It is too easy for drivers to fly down Chapel after getting off the highway, coming in from Fair Haven or the nightclub on East St.
City of New Haven, please make our street safer.
Jessica Johnson (Registered User)
In reference to my previous post, here is a photo of the debris field between our car and the red Dodge. You can see the rear driver's side wheel on the Dodge is no longer vertical, the entire rear bumper has been shoved up into the car, the whole tail end of the car broken. The debris field is a combination of parts of our car as well as presumably the perp's car. Our car was shoved forward at least several feet, and I'm told the Dodge was shoved several car lengths forward.
This was all on 04/22/12. This section of Chapel provides no impediment to people driving like total maniacs. I love living in Wooster Square, near the farmer's market and Fuel. I don't love that it seems like only a matter of time until our car is damaged by a crazy driver again.
City of New Haven, please provide traffic calming measures on this section of Chapel Street! There is plenty of evidence and broken car mirrors to prove that the current traffic lights are not cutting it!
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Reopened Frank (Registered User)
speed is definitely a problem here and it's not just cars. Extremely large vehicles like city busses, school busses and cement trucks are are regularly traveling at speeds much higher than the speed limit here. Some education, especially with regard to the professional drivers could help here since it is unlikely that these folks would want to jeapordize their jobs to save a couple of minutes traveling through this area.
We should probably get somebody out there with a radar gun to verify the speed at which these vehicles are traveling. Then we can to the opperators of these vehicles and let them know that this is not acceptable
Ben (Registered User)
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juli (Registered User)
honestly, i find it lazy and insulting that the city of new haven has been closing many issues recently on seeclickfix without actually addressing them. these are issues that clearly need action, and have a good deal of dialogue between citizens.
silencing them and pretending the issue is resolved when it is not is contrary to the entire concept of this platform.
reducing the number of issues reported on the site without actually fixing them is wasting your time and ours.
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