Yale Avenue Traffic-Calming Plans Get The Green Light

Why not just make the light at Yale and Chapel and regular light instead of blinking? The traffic calming measure they put in on Chapel near Alden didn't slow traffic down and it's not maintained properly. People will zoom around this peanut shaped rotary and I doubt it will help much with safety.

A traffic light for this intersection isn't a bad idea, but the intersection is too wide and at a weird angle, so something had to be done to narrow the intersection and force vehicles to slow down and have a better sight line when navigating the crossing. I hope when this redesign is done it will slow down all wheeled traffic and make it safer for pedestrians, bicycles and vehicles, in that order of priority.

Am I the only one who thinks the firefighter in this photo looks tired and run down?

And how about some "traffic calming" for East Street, where two of my neighbors who were parked at the corner of East and Walnut just got their cars smashed by a drunken driver, and for Walnut Street, where those crossing from Jocelyn Square Park are at constant risk from oncoming traffic turning onto the street and bombing down here at a high clip?

We submitted a petition signed by over 40 neighbors in one afternoon to Mr. Zinn early this summer about this. Can we look forward to some action soon?

I posted a comment previously and thought it was accepted, but don't see it so I am trying again:

What about some "traffic calming" for East Street, where two of my neighbors' cars were smashed by a drunken driver recently, and for Walnut Street, where people crossing are always in peril from oncoming traffic which speeds down the street without slowing for pedestrians? Over 40 Walnut Street neighbors signed a petition to Mr. Zinn in one afternoon early this summer asking for speed bumps. Are we going to get some action on this soon?

With the traffic calming on Yale, some of the thru-traffic is going to be diverted to West Rock, so residents on that street may want to install speed humps or chicanes as well.

posted by: anonymous on August 5, 2021 10:10am
With the traffic calming on Yale, some of the thru-traffic is going to be diverted to West Rock, so residents on that street may want to install speed humps or chicanes as well.

-With Central Ave closed between Fountain and Edgewood, there is already an increase in traffic on West Rock. Which is where people park on both sides of the street to attend the farmer's market or Manjeres and other businesses. So there is going to need to be some kind of pedestrian safety traffic calming measures there as well.

Willard and Central should of had this 50 years ago

Since when do "neighbors' aesthetic concerns" trump the safety concerns of the people who will be using the unprotected cycle track? Paint offers no protection.

"The cycletrack will then be striped; due to neighbors' aesthetic concerns about delineators, there won't be any physical barriers" is a wild sentence. Why does "I think that barrier is ugly" matter more than "I'd like to ride my bike in the designated lane without worrying of getting run over"?

William Kurtz and jdossgollin- it's not just aesthetic concerns, plastic delineators provide no real security for vehicles, just check out the ones on Ella Grasso Blvd that keep getting mowed down near the Route 34 connector. They provide a false sense of security as well as look ugly and make it difficult for vehicles exiting their driveways have a clear line of sight to enter the roadway.
If the painted bike lanes are wide enough to allow for a parked car door to open without crossing into the bike lane, it should help both residents and bike riders to have a safe space from each other as well as from traveling vehicles in the roadway. Yale Ave is definitely wide enough to accommodate this street design.