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I've been risking life and limb for years crossing Whitney Ave at Audubon Street. I need to get across there to an office, so going all the way to the end of the block to a crosswalk isn't viable. In fact I've seen MANY New Haven cops cross here, not to mention families going to CAW, ACES, and NMS. This intersection needs a crosswalk at minimum, an extra stoplight would help, and most of all, NO MORE DOUBLE PARKING on Whitney Ave.
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Yes please do something now! (Guest)
There have already been several serious accidents around here. The current situation is a death (or two or three) waiting to happen in the very near future.
Traffic should be immediately slowed to 15 miles per hour on this street using all available measures. The positive side effect would be increased traffic for the retail strip: pedestrians feeling more comfortable here, coming here to shop, spending more time on the street, some feeling comfortable enough to bike on the street, etc. Studies show that walkable areas command real estate premiums of 200% or more. To do that, you need to slow the speeds down and make the street safe to cross.
The same treatment should be applied to Chapel Street and other retail areas.
Regardless of what you do, please do SOMETHING before someone gets killed here.
Pedro (Guest)
Brian Tang (Guest)
Anonymous (Guest)
Anonymous (Guest)
joey (Guest)
But only to pedestrians IN THE CROSSWALK
Don'rt slam on your brakes for someone taking the garbage out and then floor your volvo...Pedestrians have to still realize it is not a stop sign,and these drivers think they are on highway 61..
Sometimes you look both ways and start to cross and wham a car zips around the corner,until you can't ever cross ...
Brian Tang (Zarejestrowany użytkownik)
Since Connecticut is such an old state, I would imagine that the laws on what does and does not constitute a legal crosswalk are somewhat tricky. Growing up on the west coast, I was always taught that a corner--even one at a T intersection--is a crosswalk, regardless of whether one is painted on the road.
Am I jaywalking if I cross a T intersection where no crosswalk is marked (e.g. the intersection of Pleasant and Pearl)? Honestly, I have no idea what Connecticut law says on this matter.
Chapell Street (Guest)
There is more on this issue here: http://www.seeclickfix.com/issues/1277
Hope it can be fixed - it is such a dangerous road configuration! Narrowing the lanes down with barricades and barrels, and making a chicane that limited speeds to about 10MPH, would be a good temporary fix until some more permanent solution can be found.
Don't understand why saving people's lives isn't worth an immediate intervention like this.
Joe (Guest)
Brian Tang (Zarejestrowany użytkownik)
I have just received confirmation that the law in Connecticut—just as in every other state in the U.S.—indicates that every corner at every intersection is legally a crosswalk, unless explicitly stated otherwise, regardless of whether a crosswalk is painted on the road.
I have also learned that, in the State of Connecticut, a pedestrian need only place one foot in the crosswalk for oncoming vehicles to be required to yield the right of way.
Therefore, state law requires that drivers (or riders) of vehicles approaching the intersection of Audubon and Whitney yield the right of way to any pedestrian with even one foot in the street.
A nifty animation explaining the law on this matter, which is more or less consistent across the states, can be found here:
http://animatedtrafficlaw.org/ror/index.php/RoR:Every_corner_is_a_crosswalk
(courtesy of the Animated Traffic Law Center)
Enjoy!
Cross (Guest)
Ben (Guest)
http://seeclickfix.com/issues/6939
Erin Gustafson (Zarejestrowany użytkownik)
RevKev (Zarejestrowany użytkownik)
Please let us know it is at least on a list 'somewhere' to get fixed 'someday' and let us know about when that 'someday' might possibly come. I played "dodge car" trying to cross there last Saturday evening.
The solution is get rid of one maybe two parking spaces and paint a crosswalk with one of those dandy little signs. A raised crosswalk would be even better.
Brian Tang (Guest)
I don't think an in-street sign would be allowed here since it's a one-way street.
Personally, I agree that getting rid of a few parking spaces and striping a crosswalk would be the best thing to do, though I'm not terribly optimistic that the city's traffic engineer would agree.
john (Guest)
Salsa de Cuba (Guest)
Anonymous (Guest)
Crosswalks are needed for crossing both Whitney and Audubon, since cars also turn into Audubon at high speed with limited visibility at the corner.
A no-parking stretch of five or ten yards before the corner would improve visibility for pedestrians and drivers alike. How about putting a big, low planter box there, edged with granite posts?
Anonymous (Guest)
CT Livable Streets Campaign (Zarejestrowany użytkownik)
Any progress on this? I walk this almost every day and take my life in my own hands each time.
I can almost imagine what it would feel like to a non able-bodied person, having had the experience in the past of walking New Haven's streets with a broken leg (and comparing them to the experience of walking through London, which despite being a huge city, is heavily traffic calmed and has raised crosswalks in many locations).
The conditions here are simply unacceptable, and it makes you think that the only reason they haven't changed is because the people in charge are able bodied, middle aged people who drive everywhere.
Zamknięte Erin Gustafson (Zarejestrowany użytkownik)
Ponownie otwarte Erin Gustafson (Zarejestrowany użytkownik)
Erin Gustafson (Zarejestrowany użytkownik)
Erin Gustafson (Zarejestrowany użytkownik)
CT Livable Streets Campaign (Zarejestrowany użytkownik)
NH Independent Coverage, 5/3/11, includes some great interviews about the need for a crosswalk at this location.
http://www.newhavenindependent.org/index.php/archives/entry/guerrilla_crosswalk_appears_on_whitney/
Also, the director of one of the city's largest business districts wrote this note to me, after we discussed the most pressing pedestrian issues in New Haven:
"I think the intersection of Audubon at Whitney ought to be focused on. I understand it is a challenging place to put a crosswalk because of the rise in the roadway (the same factor that makes it dangerous to cross here) , but I'm also sure there is some creative solution that can be devised. There is a broad swath of the community that crosses Whitney at Audubon - Yale folks, workers and shoppers in the neighborhood, ECA students, NMS students, families with young children, and more - and it is currently unnecessarily dangerous for all of them. Let's work on fixing this BEFORE someone really gets hurt or worse."
Pedro Soto (Zarejestrowany użytkownik)
Pedro Soto (Zarejestrowany użytkownik)
Doug Hausladen (Zarejestrowany użytkownik)
Dear all - Erin Gustafson and myself have submitted a project request form for the crosswalk. Please find it linked here: http://bit.ly/ward7crosswalk
We will be collecting signatures of supports at our DWSCMT general membership meeting tonight at 6pm - City Hall meeting rooms -
Best,
Doug Hausladen
Chairman
Downtown-Wooster Square CMT
dwscmt@gmail.com
Erin Gustafson (Zarejestrowany użytkownik)
Doug Hausladen (Zarejestrowany użytkownik)
An update from City Hall:
The Engineering Department has a surveyor preparing the topographical and right-a-way survey of the area so that proper Complete Streets methods can be designed and applied. A consultant team will propose Complete Streets design solutions and then the TT&P/Engineering departments will work on the budget of the project and timing.
The main reason for the project being started in a few months is due to the large sewer project by the WPCA. The road has been ripped up many times in the past month. That project is ongoing and will last through 2013 - though the area around this intersection will likely be completed much earlier.
http://www.gnhwpca.com/construction_alerts_4.aspx
Doug Hausladen (Zarejestrowany użytkownik)
Erin Gustafson (Zarejestrowany użytkownik)
Erin (Guest)
Kam Lasater (Zarejestrowany użytkownik)
A project to address this was announced yesterday at a press conference in the middle of the street.
http://www.newhavenindependent.org/index.php/archives/entry/crosswalk_plans_unveiled/
Attaching a photo of the planned improvements as well.
MableX (Zarejestrowany użytkownik)
City of New Haven (Verified Official)
Erin Gustafson (Zarejestrowany użytkownik)
Potwierdzone Department of Transportation, Traffic and Parking (Zarejestrowany użytkownik)
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