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This happens every weekday. I am literally a prisoner on my own driveway. SCSU has just dismissed as has Common Ground High School. Traffic is backed up Springside from the traffic light on Blake Street. The line of cars and school busses is backed up past 146 Springside Avenue at the moment. Cars are jumping out of line to SPEED DOWN HARD STREET TO STONE STREET TO BLAKE TO AVOID THE LIGHT. HARD STREET IS ONE WAY. THESE CARS ARE GOING DOWN AGAINST THE ONE WAY SIGN AND THERE IS GOING TO BE A VERY SERIOUS ACCIDENT VERY SOON. I HAVE ALMOST BEEN HIT BY CARS GOING THE WRONG WAY.
SOMETHING NEEDS TO BE DONE IMMEDIATELY. I HAVE COMPLAINED BEFORE ABOUT THE TIMING OF THE LIGHT AT BLAKE AND SPRINGSIDE. IT ONLY ALLOWS 3 OR 4 CARS TO COME OUT OF SPRINGSIDE BEFORE IT CHANGES TO LET TRAFFIC GO DOWN BLAKE STREET FROM SCSU TOWARD VALLEY STREET.
IT IS JUST AS BAD AT VALLEY AND BLAKE AS CARS GOING FROM BLAKE TO WHALLEY BLOCK THE BOX WHEN THE LIGHT CHANGES AND THE CARS TURNING FROM VALLEY TO BLAKE ARE BLOCKED FROM TURNING THE CORNER. THE OTHER DAY I SAT THROUGH THREE LIGHTS AND SAW TWO CARS ILLEGALLY PAA THE ENTIRE LINE AND DRIVE RECKLESSLY INTO THE INTERSECTION.
SOMEONE IS GOING TO GET SERIOUSLY HURT OR KILLED.
IT IS TIME TO TAKE CARE OF THE RESIDENTS IN THIS AREA FIRST AND PUT SCSU SECOND.
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cindy (Registered User)
Both issues are ongoing. This is especially true when SCSU is dismissing and classes are starting at 4:30/5:00.
cindy (Registered User)
Nothing has changed when SCSU is in session. Timing of light at Blake and Springside is the same. Numbet of cars going the wrong way south on Hard Street grows daily.
You take your life in your hands when you attempt to make a right hand turn from Austin to Hard Street. It is often a blind turn because cars park where No Parking is posted in n last spot before Austin-Hard intersection.
Someone is going to get hurt seriously or killed if nothing is done about ALL these issues.
The lack of response to issues I have reported lately has led me to believe reporting is futile as the pile of tires on corner of Valley and West Hills Rd has grown from 1-3 and city trucks were parked there when streets were recently swept. Also 18 wheeler continues to park overnight in Valley Street parking lot and the latest report of mattress thrown in parking lot next to 500 Blake Street fence is still there.
If nothing continues to be done and these issues are not addressed it is ridicuolously futile to report anything furthet
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cindy (Registered User)
In the same place, after the driveway v for 146 Springside Avenue in the lot, a large black what looks like a TV stand/console has been dumped and in the back of the lot directly across the street are 3 large sheets of wood that have been there and reported for at least the last 3 months.
Dont know why I am bothering because Nothing has been done with the wood in the lot and I am sure that the dumping by 146 Springside will be added to as always.
cindy (Registered User)
cindy (Registered User)
The light on the corner of Valley and Blake is just as bad at the times SCSU is in session at 3:30 and around 4:30 - 5:00 because there the light is also mistimed and only a limited number of cars can take the left on Blake to go to SCSU and that is only if the cars continuing on Blake to Whalley don't ignore the light and "block the box" as many if them do to avoid waiting for the next light. When they do this cars coming down Blake cannot make the left turn onto Valley street either.
These have been issues for a long time and I have seen othets complain about the same thing.
cindy (Registered User)
Very frustrating. Please do something!!!!!
cindy (Registered User)
I WATCH EVERYDAY AS THE TRAFFIC SPEEDS DOWN SPRINGSIDE FROM WINTERGREEN SO AS TO AVOID THE LONG LINES AND LIGHT AT FARNHAM AVENUE. EVERYDAY AT 3:30.
WHEN THE DRIVERS SEE THAT THE LINE OF CARS EXTENDS FROM BLAKE STREET LIGHT BACK TO 90 SPRINGSIDE AND HARD STREET INTERSECTION, THEY GO SPEEDING THE WRONG WAY DOWN HARD STREET TO STONE STREET WITHOUT ANY REGARD FOR THE CARS COMING UP AUSTIN TO HARD STREET. I HAVE HAD A COUPLE OF NEAR MISSES MYSELF. I WISH ONE DAY THAT SOMEONE FROM THE TRAFFIC DOVISION COULD COME SIT ON HARD STREET AND WITNESS THIS AND TICKET THESE DRIVERS GOING THE WRONG WAY BEFORE SOMEONE GETS KILLED. I WITNESSED AT LEAST 5 CARS YESTERDAY DO THIS.
I AM AFRAID BY THE TIME THIS IS SEEN TO, SCSU CLASSES WILL BE OVER FOR THE SCHOOL YEAR. NOTHING HAS BEEN DONE AS OF YET AND BECAUSE OF THAT I HAVE LOST MY FAITH THAT ANYTHING WILL HAPPEN.
cindy (Registered User)
This has continued right through SCSU'S school year. It has continued to be a problem not only eith the volume of traffic down Springside Avenue towards Blake Street because of the timing of the traffic signal at Blake and Springside.
The timing of the light is not long enough to let more than three cars turn onto Blake Street especially when the first car is turning left towards Fitch Street.
The same issue occurs at the intersection of Valley and Blake Streets with cars turning from Valley to Blake Street. This is actually compounded by the fact that cars going up Blake to Whalley Avenue DON'T stop when the light is changing or when it dies turn red and BLOCK THE BOX and then cars cannot make the turn from Valley to Blake towards SCSU.
cindy (Registered User)
This has continued right through SCSU'S school year. It has continued to be a problem not only eith the volume of traffic down Springside Avenue towards Blake Street because of the timing of the traffic signal at Blake and Springside.
The timing of the light is not long enough to let more than three cars turn onto Blake Street especially when the first car is turning left towards Fitch Street.
The same issue occurs at the intersection of Valley and Blake Streets with cars turning from Valley to Blake Street. This is actually compounded by the fact that cars going up Blake to Whalley Avenue DON'T stop when the light is changing or when it dies turn red and BLOCK THE BOX and then cars cannot make the turn from Valley to Blake towards SCSU.
cindy (Registered User)
CARS STILL GO DOWN HARD STREET FROM SPRINGSIDE THE WRONG WAY ON THE ONE EAY STREET EVERY DAY. SOMEONE IS GOING TO GET SERIOUSLY HURT OR KILLED.
cindy (Registered User)
CARS STILL GO DOWN HARD STREET FROM SPRINGSIDE THE WRONG WAY ON A REGULAR BASIS. SOMEONE IS GOING TO GET SERIOUSLY HURT COMING OUT OF AUSTIN AND TAKING A RIGHT ONTO HARD STREET TRAVELING TO SPRINGSIDE.
NOBODY PAYS ATTENTION TO THE DO NOT ENTER SIGN!!!!! WHAT MAKES IT WORSE IS THAT CARS PARK ILLEGALLY(TOO CLOSE TO THE CORNER ON END OF AUSTIN STREET WHERE YOU TURN ONTO HARD ) SO YOU MUST SWING OUT AROUND THEM WHEN MAKING A RIGHT HAND TURN. THERE WSS A SIGN THERE WHICH THEY MAY HAVE EVEN KNOCKED DOWN.
TRAFFIC CONTROL DOES NOT EXIST IN THIS SPRINGSIDE, AUSTIN AND HARD STREETS AREA. CONSTANT SPEEDING SOUTH ON SPRINGSIDE, BIG DELIVERY TRUCKS COMING CLOSE TO OUR OVERHEAD WIRES.
SPRINGSIDE AVENUE AND BLAKE STREET ARE NOT DESIGNED FOR SEMI TRACTOR TRAILER TRUCKS.
BLAKE STREET WAS EVEN POSTED "NO THROUGH TRUCKS ALLOWED". DON'T KNOW WHY THAT ORDINANCE WAS CHANGED.
WE REALLY NEED TO HAVE A TRAFFIC STUDY OF THIS AREA !!. SPEED HUMPS ON SPRINGSIDE TO SLOW SPEEDERS AND DIRT BIKES AND QUADS DOWN.
WHAT DO MY NEIGHBORS AND I NEED TO GET THIS DONE.
cindy (Registered User)
THESE VEHICLES SHOULD BE USING WINTERGREEN AVENUE WHICH IS BUILT MORE FOR THIS TYPE OF HEAVY TRAFFIC.
cindy (Registered User)
I HAVE NOT SEEN ANY CHANGE OR IMPROVEMENT TO THIS ISSUE. YESTERDAY I WAS THE 11TH CAR IN LINE AT THE LIGHT AT THE CORNER OF BLAKE AND SPRINGSIDE AND THERE WERE SIX CARS BEHIND ME. ONLY 6 CARS MADE IT THROUGH AFTER THE LIGHT CHANGED. DING ILL
THE LIGHT DOES NOT CHANGE FOR AT LEAST THREE MINUTES!!!!
I AM TIRED OF REPORTING ISSUES INCLUDING ILLEGAL DUMPING AS I REPORTED MIRE DUMPING AT GRASSY AREA NEAR AND ACROSS FROM 146 SPRINGSIDE AVRNUE OVER THREE WEEKS AGO AND ON THE EVEN SIDE AT 146 THE BROKEN FURNITURE IS STILL THERE AS ARE THE 12 + PAPER AND BLACK PLASTIC LEAF BAGS IN THE EMPTY FIELD ACROSS THE STREET.
I AM TOTALLY DISGUSTED BECAUSE I HAVE NEVER EVEN RECEIVED AN ACKNOWLEDMENT THAT THESE E MAILS ARE EVEN READ OR FOLLOWED THROUGH ON. NOTHING HAS BEEN DONE IN TWO YEARS ABOUT THE HIGH GRASS ISSUE I REPORTED ACROSS FROM 90-146 SPRINGSIDE. THE GRASS AND WEEDS HAVE GROWN SO HIGH IT IS AT LEAST 4 FEET UP THE TELEPHONE POLES AND IS COVERING THE TRAFFIC SIGNS.
I WOULD APPRECIATE A RESPONSE FROM THE CITY ON THESE ISSUES OR I AND MY NEIGHBORS WILL BE TAKING THIS FURTHER TO OUR ALDERWOMAN.
cindy (Registered User)
cindy (Registered User)
THIS ISSUE HAS NEVER BEEN ADDRESSED.
I AM TIRED OF ISSUES NOT BEING RECOGNIZED.
DO NOT CHANGE
ALMOST EVERY ISSUE I HAVE REPORTED EXCEPT FOR ILLEGAL DUMPING HAVE NOT BEEN ADDRESSED.
OUR AREA IS LIKE THE POOR STEP CHILD AND EE ARE ABOUT READY TO CONTACT OUR ALDERMAN.
cindy (Registered User)
NO RESPONSE FROM THE CITY TO THIS ISSUE EVER.
THE NEIGHBORS ARE FED UP
OTHER ISSUES REPORTED SUCH AS HIGH GRASS HAVE ALSO NEVER BEEN ADDRESSED AND THAT HAS BEEN REPORTED FOR TWO YEARS.
WE ARE TOTALLY IGNORED EVEN WITH ILLEGAL DUMPING WHICH CONTINUES.
ALMOST DAILY DUMPING OCCURS BETWEEN 146 SPRINGSIDE AND COMMON GROUND HIGH SCHOOL. PRESENTLY THERE IS A LARGE TV AND OTHER HOUSEHOLD ITEMS ON THE SIDE OF THE ROAD. ALSO A TIRE OPPOSITE 104 SPRINGSIDE.
WE DONT KNOW WHAT ELSE TO DO OR WHO WE HAVE TO SPEAK WITH TO GET THESE ON GOING DANGEROUS SITUATIONS ADDRESSED BUT I AM SURE IF IT WAS IN YOUR NEIGHBORHOOD IT WOULD HAVE BEEN ADDRESSED BY NOW.
WE WILL BE CONTACTING OUR ALDER AS A LAST RESORT TO ADDRESS THESE ISSUES.
cindy (Registered User)
WHAT DOES ONE HAVE TO DO TO GET A PROBLEM ADDRESSED.
DOES SOMEONE HAVE TO GET KILLED.
NONE OF MY COMMENTS HAS EVER BEEN ACKNOWLEDGED. THIS IS A JOKE!
cindy (Registered User)
TRAFFIC ISSUE HAS STILL NOT BEEN ADDRESSED
TWO YEARS!! NOTHING!!!!
WHAT BS. MY COMPLAINT WAS NEVER EVEN ACKNOWLEDGED LET ALONE WORKED ON.
ANOTHER FUTILE ATTEMPT AT CORRECTING A SERIOUS PROBLEM.
cindy (Registered User)
However I see no change in the timing of the light at Blake and Springside which adds to the frusyration of the drivers going south on Springside to Blake so CONSEQUENTLY MORE AND MORE CARS ARE GOING DOWN HARD STREET THE WRONG WAY SO AS TO NOT HAVE TO WAIT AT THE LIGHT AND SOMEONE OBEYING THE LAW ON THE ONE WAY STREET IS GOING TO GET SERIOUSLY HURT OR WORSE. I SEE MANY CARS NOW THAT GO DOEN HARD STREET THE WRONG WAY OM A REGULAR BASIS.
cindy (Registered User)
YOU HAVE NEVER RESPONDED OR EVEN REPLIED TO MY CONCERNS.
PROBLEM CONTINUES AND ONLY GETS WORSE AND MORE OF A SAFETY ISSUE.
LCI- Fair Haven (Verified Official)
Transportation, Traffic & Parking Department - Signal Superintendent (Verified Official)
Closed Transportation, Traffic & Parking Department - Signal Superintendent (Verified Official)
cindy (Registered User)
because other issues have been brought to the attention of other departments.