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The intersection at Court and Olive continues to be dangerous despite efforts by Traffic and Parking to resolve them. Every day, drivers ignore walkway almost running pedestrians over. City installed new "no parking" signs but drivers disregard them. This corner is dangerous. There was an accident there just last night.
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Anonymous (Guest)
CT Livable Streets Campaign (Registered User)
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They can drag the marker to correct location and click update.
Anonymous (Guest)
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Anonymous (Guest)
CT Livable Streets Campaign (Registered User)
Reducing travel speeds on Olive Street would be a good first step that would solve a lot of the other problems, which are closely related. There are many ways to do this.
Top speeds on Olive should really be about 15mph if you want the street to be a place that contributes to the economic development of the neighborhood, not detracts from it.
Additionally, paint can be used to pull back parking from the intersection, which would help improve visibility. This is called intersection "daylighting." The city already did this and it made a big difference, but I'd say they could be even more aggressive with it. Here's a great article about daylighting: http://www.streetsblog.org/2009/01/14/wiki-wednesday-daylighting-aka-the-pedestrian-peek-a-boo/
The catch is that in addition to daylighting the intersection, speeds need to be reduced, because the increased visibility tends to produce a slight increase in speed on the part of drivers (since they feel more comfortable speeding if they know they can more easily see pedestrians popping off the curb).
Acknowledged CT Livable Streets Campaign (Registered User)
CT Livable Streets Campaign (Registered User)
Reopened Serafina (Guest)
Kyle (Guest)
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Kyle (Guest)
CT Livable Streets Campaign (Registered User)
Has someone submitted a Complete Streets Request Form? A more comprehensive solution is needed.
If Olive Street is scheduled to be converted into part of the Farmington Canal Trail on-road walking & bicycling route between Orange Street and New Haven Harbor, it is a good opportunity for more comprehensive traffic calming.
Manager of Operations, Process Improvement - Transportation, Traffic, & Parking (Verified Official)
Closed Manager of Operations, Process Improvement - Transportation, Traffic, & Parking (Verified Official)