Here's a two pronged question for y'all:
What normally happens when you receive a complaint about traffic in an area? (Enforcement, I realize, but after that? Evaluation by the city, traffic calming devices possibly?) Based on the city's website, the PD appears to handle intake for all traffic complaints, and then forwards things as needed to the traffic engineering office.
Now for the situation. This is my hood. There are many like it, but this one is mine:
The starred intersection is obviously two major streets, and at times people get impatient, and avoid it using the path in red.
They are aided and abetted by the fact that we are completely devoid of TCDs. I've noted the location of the only stopsign with the hexagon. There are no speed limit signs, and no stop-signs on any of the intermediate intersections (not even facing the side streets, as you'd expect with the intersections with the collector.)
If northeast bound, in particular, this allows them to make a right turn onto the collector, and even that left noted in red, without seeing a single stop sign. To make up time, since they're cutting through residential streets, they like to do this around the 50 mph they'd be doing on the correct path.
(There's a related problem with the lack of TCDs: I've witnessed several PD accidents at those intersections because some ofthese idiots my neighbors like to roll off the side streets, thinking they don't have to stop or yield.)
This has been an annoyance for a while, but I didn't get really
until last night, when I witnessed the saddest thing I've seen in a while: A kitten trying to drag itself across out of the collector street with an apparently broken hip or pelvis, and hind leg. The person that hit them took off.
(Note for animal lovers: We're trying to capture it and get the kitten some care now, but they are feral and holed up pretty good in a hole between roots of a dense pine tree.)
So, obviously I should be as specific as possible about these problems (speed, cut-through, TCDs), with a diagram, but if you were on the receiving end of a traffic complaint like this, is there anything else you'd like included?
Thanks for listening.
What normally happens when you receive a complaint about traffic in an area? (Enforcement, I realize, but after that? Evaluation by the city, traffic calming devices possibly?) Based on the city's website, the PD appears to handle intake for all traffic complaints, and then forwards things as needed to the traffic engineering office.
Now for the situation. This is my hood. There are many like it, but this one is mine:
The starred intersection is obviously two major streets, and at times people get impatient, and avoid it using the path in red.
They are aided and abetted by the fact that we are completely devoid of TCDs. I've noted the location of the only stopsign with the hexagon. There are no speed limit signs, and no stop-signs on any of the intermediate intersections (not even facing the side streets, as you'd expect with the intersections with the collector.)
If northeast bound, in particular, this allows them to make a right turn onto the collector, and even that left noted in red, without seeing a single stop sign. To make up time, since they're cutting through residential streets, they like to do this around the 50 mph they'd be doing on the correct path.
(There's a related problem with the lack of TCDs: I've witnessed several PD accidents at those intersections because some of
This has been an annoyance for a while, but I didn't get really
until last night, when I witnessed the saddest thing I've seen in a while: A kitten trying to drag itself across out of the collector street with an apparently broken hip or pelvis, and hind leg. The person that hit them took off.(Note for animal lovers: We're trying to capture it and get the kitten some care now, but they are feral and holed up pretty good in a hole between roots of a dense pine tree.)
So, obviously I should be as specific as possible about these problems (speed, cut-through, TCDs), with a diagram, but if you were on the receiving end of a traffic complaint like this, is there anything else you'd like included?
Thanks for listening.
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You also have to pay $1200 for each one! Not the City, not the taxpayers, but the residents of the street! You will never get signatures for that. That is why you need to go out on a moonless night and do it yourself.
