Description
Three times so far, while walking, I have almost been hit by a car driving up Edwards Street and then turning right on Whitney Avenue. In each case, the driver had a red light and I had a walk signal. However, the drivers do have the right to turn right on red.
When they do so, the more careful drivers look left to check for oncoming traffic. However, they do not look right. Why should they? But at that point walkers have seen the walk signal change to "walk" and are on the crosswalk on Whitney Avenue.
One slight improvement would be a "no right turn on red" sign for drivers coming from Edwards. Even so, I am afraid to cross there now. Once two of us were nearly hit, and the driver seemed enraged by our presence and bullied us with their car.
a aussi demandé...
A. Edwards Street as it reaches Whitney Avenue
A. Other
7 Commentaires
City of New Haven (Membre officiel vérifié)
newhavencitizen (Utilisateur inscrit)
Whitney. I stopped doing it because too often drivers would not stop at Stop signs even while I was in the middle of crossing. This was a depressing way to start my day. Someone has put orange flags at the corners for pedestrians to carry in the hope of catching drivers’ attention. Not sure if they help since I’ve never seen anyone use them. I do know drivers still won’t stop at Stop signs and too seldom at lights especially if they are turning right. Many will ignore “no turn on red” signs as well. I’m hoping the new speed bumps they installed will help make us (drivers and pedestrians) safer
XYZ (Utilisateur inscrit)
An anonymous SeeClickFix user (Utilisateur inscrit)
this is embarrasing, but the problem I describe above is at Whitney and Humphrey, not Edwards. I'm new to the nieghborhood and made a mistake. )That is, the problamtic intersection is just across from the big Yale parking lot adjacent to the Peabody Museum.
(That said , it's hard to cross Whitney Avnues at Edwards Street, too, because waiting for the walk signal to finally appear requires superhuman patience. Lots of walkers job across without awaiting the walk signal.)
Reconnu Transportation, Traffic & Parking Department - Signal Superintendent (Membre officiel vérifié)
TT&P Workflow Inegration (Membre officiel vérifié)
DAL298 (Utilisateur inscrit)