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I would much prefer an unmarked intersection at my residential corner than
two or four way stop signs, provided that drivers knew how to navigate them.
That way, I would be spared the additional noise of stopping and starting
traffic, while speeds would be moderated. Unfortunately, drivers
increasingly wish to "cruise on autopilot" without the bother of checking
for other traffic.
What Pam described in an earlier letter sounds like my street. We have a two
block stretch without an intersection, and then unmarked ones. Since many
know that getting caught speeding is extremely unlikely on side streets, the
effective limit is whatever your car is capable of accelerating to between
obstacles. If the intersecting streets were to have two way stop signs, then
my street's traffic would move even faster.
What will also make residential traffic faster is the City's plan to widen
streets in conjunction with rebuilding and the removal of boulevard trees.
I've been hoping to generate interest in incorporating "traffic calming"
measures in the street rebuilding plans, but haven't had any luck so far.
Comments I've heard in my neighborhood: "people drive too fast, they should
widen the streets" "I have to slow down too often, they should widen the
streets"
Finally, the pedestrian fatality on Broadway was not due to an uncontrolled
intersection. Whether speeding was a factor was unclear from newspaper
accounts, but what was clear was that on the day the funeral, the teenage
driver was listed in the paper as having been convicted of driving 50 in a
30 mph zone in an unrelated incident.
-----Original Message-----
From: Ruth Charles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Frank Pomeroy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; 'Carole Madland' <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 18 avril, 2001 21:21
Subject: Re: [Winona] Unmarked intersections
>[Winona Online Democracy]
>
> I need to add to the comments on the unmarked intersections! I have
>been spending time outside the last two days with the nice weather, and
have
>been amazed at the close calls that have happened at the unmarked
>intersections at both ends of my block (while my children play close by!).
> We have been trained as drivers to assume that unless we see signs at
an
>intersection, we have the right of way. How is someone new to the area to
>know that this is not the case???
> Yes, people have to slow down. That is why we put up stop signs- to
>stop traffic and allow for one direction to have uninterrupted flow.
> It took a child's death to get a stop sign up on Broadway. What will
it
>take to get one on my block?
>
>--Ruth Charles
>
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