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I don't understand how, but the City found a way to make the crosswalk of Roswell St at Old Roswell St more dangerous than ever before. The City installs high intensity flashing beams that flash at a pace that could put any child to sleep, and disabled the old sign based lights in the process.
Look at the attached picture of how the crosswalk looked tonight. The light was barely visible to me, let alone the driver who almost hit me.
Please, fix the crosswalk signal in this intersection, and not in a rookie kind of way. If you need an example how how to properly signal at a crosswalk, see the signal at AlphaLoop on Haynes Bridge neat City Hall.
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Acknowledged City of Alpharetta (Verified Official)
JDE3 (Registered User)
When walking up the hill from the city lot/parking deck (past the entrance to Made), the sidewalk is on the left side of the road. However, there is no crosswalk there. Only on the other 3 sides.
The speed limit is 25 mph here, but cars are frequently going much faster, as they've finally cleared the light at Milton Ave, or they are rushing down the hill to make the green.
This is all compounded by poor visibility as cars top the hill coming from Pure, as well as pedestrians being in the shadows of the trees along Roswell St and harder to see.
I have had more close calls here than anywhere else in Alpharetta.
City of Alpharetta (Verified Official)
Daniel (Registered User)
I wish I could add videos here to prove what's happening, but tonight the lights would not activate at all.
I know in my last post, I said this couldn't have been made worse. I was wrong, and I'm sorry for that, it has been made significantly worse.
Please have Public Works fix this ASAP before it's Public Safety who is being called to this intersection
Daniel (Registered User)
Daniel (Registered User)
Since the City is unwilling to provide any status update, I will. The City has attached new "Stop for Pedestrians in Crosswalks signs" at the intersection, but there are still problems.
1) The signs cannot be seen because there is wildly inadequate street lighting at this intersection
and
2) The primary issue I reported of the sign lights not working is still valid - the lights still don't work.
I'm not a public engineer but I believe in the principle of "do no harm" and week after week when this crosswalk signal does not work, the City continues to roll the dice with the lives of its residents.
A permanent fix must be implemented. Now.
At a minimum, the City should tell us what the plan is instead of ignoring the problem.
COAADMIN (Verified Official)
The subject lights are solar powered. Since the issue was first reported, Public Works has twice replaced the batteries and/or other components. Unfortunately, in both cases operation failed within a day or two of the work being completed.
Currently, we are working with a contractor who will be performing directional boring so that underground utilities can be connected and the system converted to AC power.
Daniel (Registered User)
JDE3 (Registered User)
(Just as you did at Pure to connect with the sidewalk from the NW to the NE corner of the Roswell/Marietta St intersection.)
City of Alpharetta (Verified Official)
JDE3 (Registered User)
City of Alpharetta (Verified Official)
City of Alpharetta (Verified Official)
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Reopened JDE3 (Registered User)
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City of Alpharetta (Verified Official)
JDE3 (Registered User)
Daniel (Registered User)
Hey JDE - I walked by recently and found that it has been boxed out now, complete with cross walk signals on south and north sides.
Thanks to Alpharetta for making this improvements!
JDE3 (Registered User)
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Daniel (Registered User)