Description
Please conduct a traffic study of the town hall area. Problems/ideas include:
1) Remove Dixwell island closest to Whitney. Twice in 1 day cars were backed up in the left turn lane, blocking traffic in the nearest (middle) NB (or east bound?) lanes.
also, probably can't do anything about this, but instead of waiting for the crosslight, pedestrians zigzag in & out of traffic and then traffic is held up for the crosslight for no reason.
2) NB/EB traffic on Dixwell could use an advance left turn signal onto Washington Avenue
3) School Street x Whitney is often gridlocked, with backups sometimes past the Dixwell intersection. School Street could become one-way going away from Whitney in either direction, or become one-way in one direction (the Whitney to Evergreen side is narrow for trucks + parking + snow too).
4) Have an advance left turn signal at the School/Hamden Hills - Evergreen intersection.
5) Day Spring at Whitney is a problem. Due to parked cars & the narrow street, it's difficult to turn onto Day Spring from Whitney; even more so when another vehicle is exiting. Limit parking to one side of the street? Make it one-way from Whitney to Washington? To be honest, I often drive to Walgreens & turn there - it's easier!
Thanks for listening, and hope that some improvements can be made! Oh, I didn't know what to call it, but by "advance left turn signal" I mean giving left-turning drivers a chance to turn before the opposite traffic gets a green light.
4 Comments
The Mayor <small class="fwn">(Guest)</small>
Closed Administrative Secretary (Verified Official)
Thank you for contacting the Mayor's Office. This request has been forwarded to Hamden’s Chief of Police and Traffic Authority on 03/15/2018. Please feel free to follow up directly by calling phone # 203-230-4000. If you wish to meet with the Traffic Authority Commission please click on the link below for their scheduled meetings .
http://hamden.com/content/7089/7093/7966/9622/default.aspx
Please note, Hamden’s Police Department and Traffic Authority Commission does not have access to SeeClickFix and they will not be updating this request directly.
Tommy (Registered User)
Constituent Service Specialist,
Thanks for the link to the schedule. If anyone is interested, here is the schedule. Each session is scheduled to start at 5:45PM at Hamden High School in room C-107.
Wednesday, April 11, 2018
Wednesday, May 9, 2018
Wednesday, June 13, 2018
Wednesday, July 11, 2018
Wednesday, August 8, 2018
Wednesday, September 12, 2018
Wednesday, October 10, 2018
Wednesday, November 14, 2018
Wednesday, December 12, 2018*
* Please note the Hamden Board of Traffic Authority does not normally meet in the
months of January and December. The dates posted above are tentative should a
meeting be needed during these months and/or the availability of Commissioners.
For more information, please feel free to fish around in the following URL:
http://hamden.com/content/7089/7093/7966/9622/default.aspx
Administrative Secretary (Verified Official)
Thank you for your response. The Chief of Police just sent a response to the Mayor's Office pertaining to this request. Please see below.
"Whitney Avenue and Dixwell Avenue are both State roads and under the control and jurisdiction of CTDOT. The request should be forwarded to the appropriate regional DOT office."