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Traffic routinely exceeding 45mph on Chapel St in Westville. Same drivers will ruthlessly tailgate (or illegally pass) anyone driving the speed limit.
Traffic routinely exceeding 45mph on Chapel St in Westville. Same drivers will ruthlessly tailgate (or illegally pass) anyone driving the speed limit.
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Claudia Goodridge (客人)
Mark (客人)
I clocked Metro Taxis traveling at 52MPH in this area with a radar device. That's double the speed limit. Maybe a few calls to the company from the appropriate authorities (e.g., the Mayor) would help put a stop to this situation.
In many other places, if you go double the speed limit, you risk an enormous fine or the temporary confiscation of your vehicle.
Todd Alecknovitch (客人)
Brian Tang (客人)
New Haven Safe Streets (客人)
I agree Todd and Brian. I heard that the City would be taking a look at Chapel Street this coming year, and possibly targeting it for traffic calming (most likely painting). It is a crucial street for New Haven and Todd is absolutely correct that the speeding has a major impact on quality of life, property values, health, educational success and a host of other things that aren't related to just the chance of an injury.
If residents wish to see major improvements in property values and quality of life, they should lobby for a top speed limit on Chapel Street of between 15 and 20MPH, like is used in many residential areas within Europe, in Fairfield County, and in other areas.
In addition to Brian's simple suggestions of looking at the road paint, perhaps just posting a lower speed limit, painting speed limits on the road in huge white numbers (as they do in many other communities), and having an occasional enforcement detail, would help matters.
In West Hartford, road paint is used very effectively (and inexpensively) to create "chicanes" on streets like this one. Adding painted neckdowns, bike lanes, more heavily striped crosswalks, and other things can also affect the psychological perception of drivers, making them less likely to speed.
Image: A creative application of road paint in London. Following the application of this paint, and other simple traffic calming improvements, this particular neighborhood experienced a massive increase in property values.
Anonymous (客人)
New Haven Safe Streets (客人)
Anonymous (客人)
Todd (客人)
I feel the same way when I ride my bike, but in addition I live on Chapel in Westville and the combination of the noise of racing cars, loud music from supped up stereos that makes my walls tremble, seeping cars that are dangerous to grammar school pedestrians, myself and others is unacceptable. The local alderwoman has done nothing to improve this though she has been made aware of some of these issues myself. And has been quick to raise taxes without looking for other alternatives first.
She would have to explain why she has accomplished nothing, or responded to follow ups. The parking in front of my home and nearly all the homes on Chapel between Forrest Rd and Yale Avenue is very important to the residents and were are issued permits to allow visitors to park in front of our homes. My mother is nearly 80 and it would be very dangerous for her to come in through the back of the house.
I would like to see back paths but not at the expense of on street parking for residents and their visitors.. I believe both can be accommodated. Do you? I also believe that speed bumps, cameras that photograph license plates of traffic violators and issues tickets, and laser based speed monitors and posted speed limits will go a long way to ease these problems.
I would love to see a light rail mag-lev train provide down down service to Westville and other neighbor hoods. Taxing cars from out of the city, but provide light rail service for commuters from centralized parking lots at major entry points including the train station, Route 34, 95 at Kimberly avenue, the East side of the Q Bridge, Hamden, Woodbridge.
Portland has set a good example to follow mix use of bikes, light rail, scooters, walking for reclaimed family friendly housing stock, I can go and on here.
New Haven had and can have a wonder water front. It needs to be reclaimed. It will take time but it will increase the tax base is implemented correctly. Leveraging, human capital, Gov't revenue, venture capital New Haven can make an investment in "Green" technology that will pay for itself and return a profit to pay for some services such as garbage collection and many other cost centers. We can turn cost centers into profit centers and place New Haven at the forefront of the Green revolution by attracting and leveraging the human capital that exists in the city and will be soon graduating from our universities and from those who have been layed off and looking to give back to society.
Let New Haven lead the way!
I know how this can be accomplished. Our city government may have difficulties. They lack both the reach. grasp and the will.
Anonymous (客人)
Anonymous (客人)
Anonymous (客人)
V (客人)
SeeClickFix keeps sending emails asking me if this "issue" has been resolved.
No. Not at all.
Speed bumps, speed traps, traffic calming measures - something needs to be done. People treat the streets like a highway.
V (客人)
Enforcement.
Speed humps (bigger and badder than bumps) everywhere.
And more people driving the speed limit. When it becomes a community standard, everyone drives that way, and people stop tailgating because they're used to it.
DV (客人)
See click fix keeps asking me if this issue has been resolved (by email).
Today someone passed me on Chapel. How did this become accepted behavior? I've never been to a place like this.
DV (客人)
"Has the issue titled "speeding and tailgating" been fixed?"
This reminder emails just make me think of how much I hate drivers around here. I got passed on the way to work yesterday and on the way home today.
Anonymous (客人)
CT Livable Streets Campaign (注册用户)
I'm sure the issues can be fixed someday, but not sure enforcement will help all that much.
Along with my neighbors, I would like to see a breakdown of traffic enforcement activity by neighborhood so individual neighborhoods can actively measure what is happening there.
In 2008, over 2,000 neighbors plus nearly 100 elected officials, community groups, businesses and churches directly requested this through the Safe Streets Petition, but no action has been taken.
As we all know, there has been a fairly significant citywide increase in M/V ticketing since 2008 -- but since little neighborhood data has been compiled, it is difficult to see if that increase was just in downtown or if the NHPD is actually enforcing the laws in any particular section of town.
In any case, enforcement is only of limited usefulness. People will continue to speed as long as the roads are designed the way they are. If residents want a quiet neighborhood with controlled traffic and a balance between mobility and safety for road users of all ages and abilities, it should work towards simple traffic calming measures.
To cite just one of hundreds of documented examples, Cambridge, MA, a city with similar demographics and climate to New Haven, recently installed a series of raised crosswalks, which reduced incidence of speeding from about 60% of vehicles to less than 10%.
Until these basic quality of life issues are addressed I feel that a lot of people will hesitate to move to or invest in neighborhoods that are beset by speeding, noise and unruly behavior. A fraction of the $400+ million that New Haven invests in other government services might be put to better use creating neighborhoods that families wish to invest in in the long term.
City of New Haven (官方验证)
wearewestville (客人)
K8 (注册用户)
J (注册用户)
PLEASE JOIN THE CHAPEL ST. GROUP/DISCUSSION. Changes require more than comments in this forum. The greater the number of constituents banding together for change the more attention we will receive from our city officials to address this issue. Begin by stopping by and meeting with Adam during his Thur. 8:00AM office hours at Deja Brue. Adam can also connect you with our group. Read up on a previous post under # 1229847.
Jordan
Doug Hausladen [mailto:DHausladen@newhavenct.net]
'adam=marchand25.org@mail66.atl91.mcsv.net'; Adam Marchand (adammarchand25@gmail.com)
关闭 Manager of Operations, Process Improvement - Transportation, Traffic, & Parking (官方验证)