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This is a very hazardous area for walking, and there is no alternative across the street in front of Chick's, where there is no sidewalk and little room for a pedestrian. So pedestrians are forced to share this dangerous road with motorists who flaunt the absence of police patrol of this road (why is this??), and drive in reckless excess of the posted speed limit -- wait, there is NO posted speed limit on this road!. The city KNOWS this is a dangerous area because they put up cones for a charity walk on Sept 18, but then removed the cones at the end of the day. The problem is exacerbated by dangerous driving; east-bound motorists turn onto Beach St from Washington Ave, and then have the long straightaway to accelerate to speeds often exceeding 50mph, with complete impunity, reaching the bend at Morse Ave and often appearing to barely have control of their vehicle as they make the turn...right where pedestrians are now walking. All that's waiting to happen is for one of these motorists to be texting or talking on a cell phone, and for someone, tragically, to be killed or seriously hurt. This is malicious negligence on the part of the city of West Haven, and should something tragic happen, they should be taken to task and to court. There's no reason why they can't put up temporary structures, such as NJ dividers, to create a safe passage for ped's. Of course, there's also no reason why they can't install speed humps on Beach St (such as one finds more and more on streets in New Haven), or some other traffic calming device. And as days shorten, morning walkers are even more endangered, walking in the dark and sometimes in fog, by the long stream of speeding east-bound commuters (often using cell phones, doing their hair, etc.) who use Beach St as an alternative to other east-west roads that slow them down with traffic lights and stop signs.
Shame on you, West Haven!!
21 Kommentierens
DogLover (Gast)
Michael74 (Registrierter Benutzer)
Eleanore Turkington (Gast)
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AvidWalker (Gast)
Why do you need a name, address, and phone number to follow through on this? This is not an issue specific to any one individual. In any case, as pointed out here, city officials must already be aware of this public hazard because they addressed it for a charity walk by putting up traffic cones, but then made the decision to remove them at the end of the walk, which indicates that people who walk here at other times don't matter.
Eleanore Turkington (Gast)
remarra (Gast)
bob marra
Eleanore Turkington (Gast)
please send me your name, address and phone number, kept strictly confidential and I will try to get this problem resolved. Send to gripevine4wh@aol.com
Eleanore Turkington
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William Kurtz (Gast)
I agree that this is a dangerous condition.
All of the streets, to the best of my knowledge, have been cleaned and repaired so that they are safe for automobile traffic. Why has the same not been done on this area which is so important for pedestrians? Are people who walk considered second class citizens?
Gracie (Gast)
A couple of weekends after Irene, the Public Works dept had their chucklehead beach groomer out on the beaches at the west end, "grooming" the beach. That tractor could instead have been used to clear the sidewalk area across from Chick's. But apparently PW got a call from a resident saying that, because the upcoming weekend (October, mind you) was going to warm, they wanted the beach groomed. That's how this city operates.
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Eleanore Turkington (Gast)
AN EXCELLENT GRIPE. SEND TO Gripevine4wh@aol.com, include your name, address and phone number, kept strictly confidential and I will follow it up.
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West Haven Voice
Reopened Michael74 (Registrierter Benutzer)
Michael74 (Registrierter Benutzer)
BobM (Registrierter Benutzer)
Michael74 (Registrierter Benutzer)
AHHHH its not that the sand need to be shoveled off the sidewalk.. the entire sidewalk is gone. the sand eroded away and took the sidewalk with it. Pretty soon theres not going to be a road in front of chicks because the rate of erosion is in turbo mode. there are a bunch of other places where the beach is just dissolving away too.
Im loosing all hope for humanity, not just west haven. no one gives a crap about anything or anyone.
BobM (Registrierter Benutzer)
Michael74 (Registrierter Benutzer)
BobM (Registrierter Benutzer)
Michael74 (Registrierter Benutzer)
Eleanore Turkington (Gast)
Eleanore Turkington
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Send me your name, address and phone number, kept confidential.
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