Dangerous crossing

http://www.newhavenindependent.org/index.php/archives/entry/pedestrian_hit_at_whitney_and_aubudon/

An update from City Hall:

The Engineering Department has a surveyor preparing the topographical and right-a-way survey of the area so that proper Complete Streets methods can be designed and applied. A consultant team will propose Complete Streets design solutions and then the TT&P/Engineering departments will work on the budget of the project and timing.

The main reason for the project being started in a few months is due to the large sewer project by the WPCA. The road has been ripped up many times in the past month. That project is ongoing and will last through 2013 - though the area around this intersection will likely be completed much earlier.

http://www.gnhwpca.com/construction_alerts_4.aspx

Crosswalk needed more than ever! A pedestrian was hit today. Thankfully injuries appeared not to be life threatening but I hope we can see results before we have another accident!

Is there any update from the department on the progress?

Dear all - Erin Gustafson and myself have submitted a project request form for the crosswalk. Please find it linked here: http://bit.ly/ward7crosswalk

We will be collecting signatures of supports at our DWSCMT general membership meeting tonight at 6pm - City Hall meeting rooms -

Best,

Doug Hausladen
Chairman
Downtown-Wooster Square CMT
dwscmt@gmail.com

NH Independent Coverage, 5/3/11, includes some great interviews about the need for a crosswalk at this location.

http://www.newhavenindependent.org/index.php/archives/entry/guerrilla_crosswalk_appears_on_whitney/

Also, the director of one of the city's largest business districts wrote this note to me, after we discussed the most pressing pedestrian issues in New Haven:

"I think the intersection of Audubon at Whitney ought to be focused on. I understand it is a challenging place to put a crosswalk because of the rise in the roadway (the same factor that makes it dangerous to cross here) , but I'm also sure there is some creative solution that can be devised. There is a broad swath of the community that crosses Whitney at Audubon - Yale folks, workers and shoppers in the neighborhood, ECA students, NMS students, families with young children, and more - and it is currently unnecessarily dangerous for all of them. Let's work on fixing this BEFORE someone really gets hurt or worse."

Please see http://seeclickfix.blogspot.com/2011/05/crosswalk-conundrum.html for a roundup & links to all the issues reported here.

Has there been any progress on this? I have sent certified letters to the City about this crosswalk, but not heard anything back.

I'm in too! Just tell me when/where to be. Mornings are bad, as are lunchtimes and evenings are even worse now that it's dark again.

I'm in! Can we also do this at Court and Olive? I say we choose: Dynamite by Taio Cruz! "I'm gonna celebrate and lift my life..."

i think a protest is in order

Flash Mob!!! Let's just show up and do it.

How do we go about organizing a pedestrians' critical mass?