Good
stuff. Bob. Thank you.> On Aug 29, 2016, at 12:29 PM, Anderson Robert
via Neighbors_nobhill-nm <
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Thanks Dave for this useful information. As Juan points out, the
data show the accidents with severe injuries are more as perhaps the
number total accidents may be less. I say perhaps as this data is
probably incomplete because some people will settled between themselves
rather than report it. Or, how do we chart like the day I was
almost killed at the corner in my yard trimming weeds by a car that spun
backwards out of control in a run-the N/S stop sign collision, with a
car stopping inches behind me in just seconds with the read bumper on my
legs. Yes, I have a personal stake in safety on this
roadway. The latest collision here that spun out went through my
yard wall headed toward the bed room where my girls sleep. The
wall is in the process of being rebuilt. One night I had two cars
nose to bumper in my yard against the both having jumped over a large
set of boulders to prevent this kind of thing.
>
> After watching this section for 13 years now, before and
after the rebuild of Lead/Coal, I think there are several things that
could be done.
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> Carlisle and Coal
(maybe at Lead too) is a death trap. A reasonable proposal would
be that the Coal/Carlisle intersection should be a flashing red in all
directions, all stop. This would help stop the drag racing from
Girard to Bryn Mawr and Carlisle by those trying to beat the
lights. The light at Bryn Mawr should be removed or a 4 way stop
also. I can see no purpose the one at Bryn Mawr serves other than
to give the go start signal for drag racing from Girard to
Carlisle. I have seen APD cars cruise this section of Coal and
drivers are nice then, but once they are not seen it is open season for
racing and high performance driving show off driving. One way this could
be tamed too would be to have and strongly enforce a "silent
neighborhood" ordnance on vehicles with no mufflers or with the racing
exhausts (another motorcycle just zoom by blasting away the silence in
my office), I can hear it tearing out of Carlisle.
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> The accidents I see on this section
are probably along with injuries also more in total cost vehicle
damage. My adopted mother was almost a kill turning off Lead south
on Richmond. Two cars were destroyed. That intersection is
usually blocked by both the telephone switch boxes out near the
sidewalk/street to the east and on the west by residents parking large
SUV on the turn-in side. One has to come to a full stop on Lead to
turn onto Richmond if there is a vehicle stopped with its nose out in
the traffic lane at the north direction stop sign. The residents
on the west corner have lots of photos of cars rolled over in their
yard, up against signs and the trees (which have never been replaced),
etc.
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> Richmond going south
at Coal has the almost same problem due to the poor design that has been
inherited by legacy zoning that allows people to build tall walls
blocking visibility to the west. Large brush growing there also
compounds the problem as drivers have to pull way out past the
pedestrian walk zone to see the traffic.
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> No modern designer would build streets like this with
the N/S flow pattern but A.R.T. is doing that and as a result is only
going to make for more and worse crashes, imo with the increased traffic
flow. I even see big semi size trucks on Coal probably trying to
make local deliveries on Central. Something has to be done about
the N/S and line of sight problems on this section. I have some
proposals on that problem too…
>
>
Bob
> (corner of Coal and Richmond concerned
homeowner)
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> On Aug 28, 2016,
at 4:34 PM, bluet-78504--- via Neighbors_nobhill-nm <
neighbors_nobhill-nm@mailman.swcp.com>
wrote:
>
> Thanks Dave,
>
> The speed limit was reduced from 35
to 30 and accidents with injuries go up by double digits. It will be
interesting (entertaining) to hear the speed limit reduction apologists
make excuses for this. Scientific facts are much more valuable for a
reasoned discussion than opinions.
>
> Juan
>
>
>>
>> Neighbors,
>>
>> After much discussion in the
early part of this year about the frequency
>> of
accidents along the Nob Hill Neighborhood corridor of Lead and Coal,
>> I asked our APD crime prevention representative,
Laura Kuehn, for some
>> information about this.
>>
>> At our May crime prevention
and safety meeting, Commander Griego, APD
>>
Southeast Command, presented those statistics. I scanned them and
>> uploaded them to our web site:
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>>
http://www.nobhill-nm.com/traffic-accidents-leadcoal-112013-4302016/>>
>> Dave Dixon
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>>
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