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There have been 2 car crashes in 3 weeks at the intersection of Lighthouse & Marion. All season, people race around this bend with screeching tires. Whether it's narrowing the road, installing an elevated pedestrian crosswalk, a traffic circle, or changing the road surface -- SOMETHING needs to be done. Note: No one was hurt in the accident shown in the photo.
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cjzurcher (Usuario registrado)
Neil (Usuario registrado)
I agree that some form of traffic calming is needed at this location. I actually work in traffic planning/engineering and happen to also live at 416 Lighthouse. There was a brief discussion about this location around 2010 and I brought up the possibility of a roundabout there: http://www.seeclickfix.com/issues/24537
I believe the city's complete-streets manual has a project request form.
http://www.cityofnewhaven.com/TrafficParking/pdfs/CS-Manual-04-05-10.pdf
This should be discussed with Sal DeCola, as well as the city traffic/parking and engineering departments, so that a solution can be had.
Neil
Rachel Heerema (Usuario registrado)
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Reconocido Engineering Department (Usuario registrado)
Hello, thanks for posting this issue. I see there has been some talk of a Complete Streets application. For your information, below is our standard message for the program. Please do not hesitate to contact the Department of Engineering with any questions.
MESSAGE BELOW:
Please submit this issue through New Haven’s “Complete Streets” program. To do this, please visit the Engineering Department’s “Complete Streets” website. Link Below:
http://www.cityofnewhaven.com/Engineering/completestreets.asp
There you will find a “Complete Streets Manual” and “Project Request Form”. On October 23, 2008, The New Haven Board of Aldermen unanimously passed an order creating a nine member Complete Streets Steering Committee to guide the development of the following elements for the purpose of addressing the status of city streets: policy document, design manual, public process, educational campaign and traffic enforcement.
A focal point is to include feedback and ideas for street improvements from members of the community. You will also find previously submitted project requests from other community members. Please submit a “Project Request Form” for this issue through the link above. As a resident, you are not required to design anything. Instead, use the "Complete Streets Manual" as a showcase of the different types of traffic calming measures that may be used.
Rachel Heerema (Usuario registrado)
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Engineering Department (Usuario registrado)
Hello, the Engineering Department comment was in response to your January 10th comment that Alderman DeCola was going to resubmit a new request. That was simply to provide the community with all the details of the program.
We did look into the mentioned earlier applications at the end of the day. Currently the application is listed as "under review". This means that traffic data has already been collected, and a determination of the feasibility, potential costs, and priority needs to take place.
This determination is not made by the Engineering Department, but rather a resource steering committee lead by two Aldermans. The Board of Aldermans are currently in the process of selecting who will sit on that committee. This supposed to happen at the end of this month, and the first committee meeting is tentatively planned for sometime in February.
Hopefully this answers your questions, but if you have more please do not hesitate to contact us.
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Rachel Heerema (Usuario registrado)
This is what I heard from the City's Engineering Dept:
Currently there are no scheduled meetings for the Resource Allocation Committee (Complete Streets Committee). The Chief Administrative Officer is in charge of the committee (see description below). Jennifer Pugh is currently the Acting Chief Administrative Officer and may have more insight then I do as to the committee's standing. Please feel free to contact her directly at 203-946-7903.
Resource Allocation Committee
This committee was created in 2013 in response to concerns by the Board of Aldermen about the prioritization of street and sidewalk improvements. The committee includes the CAO, City Engineer and two members of the Board of Aldermen. It meets as needed to review requests for street and sidewalk work measured against condition information and available resources. The Committee must develop and approve the priority work list before handing it off to DPW and Engineering for implementation. Once the list is developed the Committee meets as needed to make any adjustments.
Rachel Heerema (Usuario registrado)
Doug Hausladen, the new director of transportation, traffic and parking will be at the East Shore Management Team TONIGHT! (Tuesday, February 11 at 7 p.m.) at the Fire Station on Townsend & Lighthouse, 2nd Floor. If you can, please come down & we can all talk about this issue.
*Sorry about the late notice! Just read this last night.
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Rachel Heerema (Usuario registrado)
Update: The City has a Resource Allocation Committee - Chief Administrative Officer (CAO), Engineer and 2 Alders (Alphonse Paolillo and Frank Douglass) - that was created by Ordinance to prioritize sidewalk, paving and tree work citywide. The CAOs office is working now to compile information for the Committee's review. The new CAO just sent a communication to the Alders as required by Ordinance asking for their priorities. Meanwhile Dept of Public Works and Engineering are compiling information about sidewalk and paving work on last year's approved list that was not finished due to funding constraints and pulling information from SeeClickFix requests.
The committee will meet once the budget is adopted and they know the funding for the year. Doug Hausladen, (Director of Transportation, Traffic and Parking) is taking the lead on review of the Complete Streets applications that have been filed. (Like this issue has been filed.) He will be providing input to the Resource Allocation Committee on these projects and how they may tie in to the setting of sidewalk and paving priorities.
Please call your Alders so this issue is included as a priority recommendation!
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Cerrado Manager of Operations, Process Improvement - Transportation, Traffic, & Parking (Oficial verificado)
Reopened Neil (Usuario registrado)
Thank you for prompting more thought in this issue. While the situation is improved, it has not been ‘fixed’. The one radar speed display feedback sign has seemingly helped to slow traffic headed northeast-bound towards Townsend, nothing has been done to slow traffic headed in the other direction southwest-bound towards Lighthouse Park. At a minimum, a second radar speed display sign should be installed somewhere on Lighthouse Road near Anthony’s/Cove Street aimed at slowing vehicles as they go around the curve near Marion side street. This is a blind curve as there as multiple houses with children and a Park after they curve.
Moreover, this issue of speeding has a lot to do with the wide width of Lighthouse Road in this section. Further improvements should be done to narrow the vehicle travel lanes for the entire length of Lighthouse Road. Speed humps, roundabout(s) and other traffic calming devices should also be considered. This area is not throughway.
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