Description
Streets running parallel to Whitney: Everit, Orange, Livingston, need traffic calmers. Excessive speeding, noise pollution from loud mufflers, dangerous driving throughout residential neighborhood where children and Seniors walk regularly, all causing quality of life damage.
also asked...
Q. Is the issue at an intersection?
A. Yes
A. Yes
Q. Intersecting Streets (if applicable)
A. Linden, Willow to Edwards
A. Linden, Willow to Edwards
Q. This issue involves
A. Speeding
A. Speeding
23 Comments
City of New Haven (Verified Official)
Christopher (Registered User)
Citizen of New Haven (Registered User)
A birder and dog walker (Registered User)
Christopher (Registered User)
Christopher (Registered User)
Tommy (Registered User)
Hello Christopher,
I'm trying to decipher your last 2 posted comments. If a pedestrian pushes the cross-walk button and then crosses the street before the cross-walk light turns green, how would that increase the waiting time of any drivers more than if the pedestrian waited for the cross-walk light to turn green?
Also, what other cities have smarter traffic control systems? I would love to do research about those cities' smarter systems and then introduce those systems to our TT&P (Transportation, Traffic & Parking Department).
Finally, to everyone else who has posted comments under this reported issue requesting traffic calming devices, how many years of experience do you have on the subject of traffic control devices? If the answer is "zero", please spend at least 2 hours every day for the next 28 days studying traffic control measures and then take another look at what you've already posted here.
I hope this information helps.
Anonymous (Registered User)
Tommy, if the traffic control experts getting paid by us taxpayers were doing their jobs, would the city have so much out of control traffic (speeding, red light running, etc)?
Speed bumps on Canner and Edwards streets seem to calm traffic.
Christopher (Registered User)
When I was talking about pedestrians not waiting for the walk signal, I was placing no blame on pedestrians, but rather thinking of the psychological state of the drivers waiting (what they perceive to be) an extra 15 seconds without the intersection being in use. I'm trying to understand why they might be frustrated. I personally love the idea of having all cars stop when pedestrians are using the intersection. As for smarter traffic lights, I was referring to using inducted loops at an intersection to determine when there are cars waiting at or about to pass through the intersection. Have you ever pulled up to a light and have the light change almost magically? That's it!
Christopher (Registered User)
Tommy (Registered User)
Hello Anonymous,
You are correct. Speed bumps would calm traffic, but not only for regular drivers. That would also slow the traffic of our emergency response vehicles, i.e., ambulances, fire engines, and police cars.
If you get a chance, please take a look at all of the other requests for speed bumps from other residents in our city. The list is long and rampant.
If all of those requests for speed bumps were granted, our city will look like a BMX track.
Also, the traffic problems are not caused by the employees of our TT&P (Transportation, Traffic & Parking) Department. The problems are caused by drivers who fail to properly obey traffic laws. Those drivers should be issued the appropriate traffic violation citations (tickets) and made to repay their debt to society.
The law abiding drivers shouldn't be made to have to suffer for the poor choices of the few.
I hope this information helps.
Tommy (Registered User)
Christopher,
Thanks for the clarification, and especially for the link to the traffic video. It succinctly explained the main points in just 12 minutes 36 seconds.
The inducted loops you mentioned, commonly known as actuated traffic control signals, truly are fantastic, and I'd love to learn more about them.
In fact, I'm going to dedicate 2 hours every day, until the end of the month (July 31), to studying everything there is to know about actuated traffic control devices. There already are quite a few intersections with traffic signals in our city that are facilitated by actuated traffic controls, but why not all intersections with traffic lights?
For now, I can only guess why our city hasn't implemented those devices at all intersections. Could it be because of budget restraints? Or perhaps the technology hasn't progressed far enough to be considered reliable? Or is there an element of human error that prevents the implementation?
We humans, the most intelligent species on our planet, are often baffled when we encounter one of our own who can't figure out how to properly use something we've created.
In those cases, some people say, "User error" or "They just don't know how to do it." Those quotes are the words of underachieving losers who fail to realize their instructions are not foolproof.
The progression of technology and the element of human error are tied together. That's why we can see some drivers waiting at red lights for several minutes before someone else steps out of their vehicle and walks up to the waiting driver and says, "You have to pull up a few more feet for the sensors." If the actuated traffic control system were perfect, that would never happen.
I'll post another comment on or about Sunday, August 1, 2021, with updated information about what I've learned about actuated traffic control devices. Thanks again for your thought inducing comment and video.
I hope this information helps.
Citizen of New Haven (Registered User)
Tommy (Registered User)
Citizen of New Haven,
What are you talking about? There is nothing here that isn't civil or constructive. Also, nobody made any snide remarks. Have you even read through the posted comments of this issue #10304366?
Also, why did you change your SeeClickFix username? Previously, you had the username "MV". Then you changed it to "Citizen of New Haven" just a few minutes ago. Yeah, you're a troll. I've seen many.
Good luck trying to police other people. Find another platform where there are sheeple who might obey your commands.
An anonymous SeeClickFix user (Registered User)
Christopher (Registered User)
Trashpicker (Registered User)
Tommy (Registered User)
Trashpicker,
Thanks for the comment. I've been called snide many times before, but I'm pretty sure my tenacity to learn new things actually helps to make our world a better place.
An anonymous SeeClickFix user (Registered User)
Anonymous (Registered User)
Christopher (Registered User)
Tommy (Registered User)
If anyone is interested in knowing, here's a short summary of what I've learned about actuated traffic control devices:
Actuated traffic control devices are totally awesome for areas with few pedestrians and low vehicular traffic. They are not optimal for urban areas where traffic is heavy.
The biggest problem with actuated traffic control devices is their high rate of failure resulting in frustrated residents and high maintenance costs.
So, they break more often than fixed-time traffic control devices and they cost too much to maintain.
I hope this information helps.
Closed Manager of Operations, Process Improvement - Transportation, Traffic, & Parking (Verified Official)