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Lacking a bus shelter, people waiting for the bus are now gathering in front of the two doors of 746 Chapel, creating a hazard. In the past two days, I've had two collisions, one of which resulted in having a hot cup of coffee spilled on me. Ouch! Let's get this fixed before someone really gets hurt.
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Anerkannt Department of Transportation, Traffic and Parking (Registrierter Benutzer)
Wizwaz (Registrierter Benutzer)
zbeat (Registrierter Benutzer)
Kam Lasater (Registrierter Benutzer)
BenHV (Registrierter Benutzer)
Wizwaz (Registrierter Benutzer)
CT Livable Streets Campaign (Registrierter Benutzer)
The new bench is great. However, I think that Travers and the city's engineering office are misguided if they believe that they can add a full scale shelter here without widening the sidewalk.
The proper approach would be to add a "curb extension"/"bumpout" like the one shown here in Cambridge, Massachusetts:
http://www.cambridgema.gov/CDD/Transportation/design/Transit.aspx
or the "bus bulb" like this one in NYC:
http://landscapeonline.com/research/article/12267
Wide sidewalks are needed to encourage walking in Downtown and also promote safety by giving people enough space to maneuver with baby carriages, bicycles, and the like. If you look around other bus stops in Downtown New Haven, you'll notice that the shelters are often set back or located on an area with an especially wide sidewalk.
Bumping out the curb would create plenty of room for a bus shelter. This section of Chapel Street was significantly widened in the 1960s in order to accommodate more car traffic, which was an unnecessary move. If appropriately configured, this street can easily have car travel lanes, bike lanes, bus stops, shorter pedestrian crossing distances, AND wide sidewalks altogether.
Sukima (Registrierter Benutzer)
Doug Hausladen (Registrierter Benutzer)
Kam Lasater (Registrierter Benutzer)
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Geschlossen BB (Registrierter Benutzer)
BB (Registrierter Benutzer)