Deskripsyon
The Kimberly Avenue Bridge connecting West Haven and New Haven is extremely dangerous and makes traveling between the cities by bicycle very difficult. The east-bound traffic heading for the I-95 on ramp treats the right lane as part of that ramp and routinely accelerates to 50+ mph. There is no shoulder, cars cut each other off to gain position, the lane is often littered with broken glass and in the winter, the sidewalk goes uncleared, forcing pedestrians into the road.
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Brian Tang (Panauhin)
Jessica Johnson (Panauhin)
Brian Tang (Rehistradong User)
I tried out my Spring St detour route this morning and I officially found it to be… not worth it. :-(
It added at least 5 minutes and I found riding on 1st Avenue between Spring and Kimberly to be extremely stressful. On the way back I just took Kimberly. Fortunately, traffic was light, but I still felt like I needed to pedal like my life depended on it to reach a speed where drivers would take me seriously.
If you’re not comfortable keeping up speeds in excess of 20 m.p.h., then there’s basically no low-stress way to get to West Haven at this point.
Anonymous (Panauhin)
CT Livable Streets Campaign (Rehistradong User)
Anonymous (Panauhin)
http://tiny.cc/kimberly161
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Jessica Johnson (Panauhin)
Wouldn't it be nice if there were anything new to write about this path a whole year later? Or thanks to give to some city officials who had fixed the problem? Alas!
This is apparently a no man's zone between New Haven and West Haven, with both city governments ignoring the huge problems here for pedestrians and bicyclists and hoping the other government will take care of it. It would be so great to see some collaboration between New Haven and West Haven here to clean up the areas on either side of the Kimberly Avenue bridge! And to Keep it cleaned up too.
I see people walking and/or biking through this area every time I use the bridge. There is nothing to slow down drivers entering/exiting the highway and they Fly through here. Too dangerous. Needs so much fixing!
CT Livable Streets Campaign (Rehistradong User)
The Board of Aldermen passed a Complete Streets Order by a vote of 30-0 in October 2008. As the only viable connection between two of the largest cities in our state, this bridge has been a community issue for long before that.
Why such a delay in making this bridge acceptable for cyclists and pedestrians?
CT Livable Streets Campaign (Rehistradong User)
CT Livable Streets Campaign (Rehistradong User)
CT Livable Streets Campaign (Rehistradong User)
Christopher Treat (Panauhin)
Coming over the Kimberly Ave. Bridge from West Haven into New Haven has many issues. For one there is no bike lane and the traffic is at highway speeds before they even get on the ramps. The alternative is to go on the sidewalk, but that too has problems. Glass, a narrow path, and a 12inch drop off to the road. The sidewalk is my preferred rouet when coming into new haven on the xtracycle or madson toting two boys. The problem continues as the sidewalk ends and a 'trail' begins. There is a well worn trail that runs parallel to the on ramps. The trail is littered with glass, soft sand, and other non bike hazards. After about a hundred trips over the past two years along that path i have defined a few changes that would close the gap and offer a 'bridge' between two cities for walkers, runners, and cyclist.
1. make the bridge path wider and include a rail on the street side.
2. gravel or pave the path from the bridge to Ella T. Grasso Blvd.
3. Install guardrail on 95 North Onramp from Kimberly Ave to prevent cars from going to the shoreline to hang out and fish. (this is where most of the glass comes from)
Last year i requested a guard rail to be cut so that bike trailers could pass. That was taken care of, now it's time to put some more of our tax money to work by creating safe routes between cities and towns. This route is also marked on for the East Coast Greenway.
lets get this done.
Brian Tang (Rehistradong User)
CT Livable Streets Campaign (Rehistradong User)
CT Livable Streets Campaign (Rehistradong User)
Christopher Treat (Panauhin)
CT Livable Streets Campaign (Rehistradong User)
More bad DOT design (Panauhin)
The (West Haven) north side of the bridge, where the sidewalk ends, does not have a handicapped ramp and, as the curb looks relatively new - granite curb stones, I'm sure the bridge is not ADA compliant. This bridge is an example of the worst of CT DOT's design, where it is obvious that no one, at DOT, put any thought into how a pedestrian or a bicyclist, or anyone who is not in a car could possibly use this bridge in a safe manner.
CT Livable Streets Campaign (Rehistradong User)
Pray for peak oil (Panauhin)
CT Livable Streets Campaign (Rehistradong User)
CFFCChrisTreat (Rehistradong User)
DOT don't mess it up - again (Panauhin)
Karen N (Rehistradong User)
Doug Hausladen (Rehistradong User)
Dear all,
I will be gathering a meeting together with West Haven officials and some commuters between downtown NHV and West Haven (some going West, some going East) at the Yale West Campus at the end of August/September.
If you would like to be included, please email ehutchin @ newhavenct .net
Best,
Doug
Knia500 (Rehistradong User)
Pedestrian (Panauhin)
LET'S GO!
land ponzi, bad design, corruption, greed, etc. (Panauhin)
The DOT did build a paved path, to the Kimberley Ave. bridge, but what is one to do, when one gets there? Stare at the speeding cars? Also, the DOT eliminated the bike path, on the Howard Ave. bridge, so the Howard Ave. bike lane ends, abruptly, on one side of the bridge and starts on the other side of the bridge... The elimination of the bike lane, on the bridge encourages cars to speed and puts cyclists in direct conflict with Northbound Howard Ave. traffic, turning right onto 5th St. So basically the DOT made a bike path to an unsafe bridge and then made another bridge unsafe. Don't forget the new traffic jams, on Sea St., backing up all the way to Howard and 5th St. Basically, I think the plan all along was to turn Sea St. into a highway entrance ramp, as a favor to the developers of the old Register building.
The Boulevard / Sea St. exit ramps are huge, no way any pedestrian can navigate those acres of tar.
And allegedly a developer wants to build a mall, i.e. get the city of West Haven, and the state of CT. to improve his property, after they steal some land, so the can flip the cleaned up mess. So how many car trips does it take to support a mall? 10,000 minimum? Yep the Kimberley Ave. bridge is really going to work out well...