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The new peanut at Chapel and Yale is a HUGE improvement and also further highlights just how FAST drivers make the approach to it on Chapel. Chapel's sidewalk by Edgewood park was such a delight to walk while the street was closed to cars. Now that it's back open, walking it once again means having no physical buffer between you and cars careening down at dangerous and illegal speeds before getting slowed by the peanut — yay peanut, but seriously, we need to address more of Chapel. This super wide street (all of Chapel is too car-dedicated, but this area is particular egregious) is dangerous by design and needs to reprioritize people on foot or micro mobility vehicle (related: how the heck are micro mobility users supposed to safely and easily transfer to/use the multi-use lane at the peanut? It's a 90 degree turn right where drivers are just beginning to stop short — someone's going to be killed if you don't build a safe connection and fast!) and physically slow down drivers. This means hard protection (like the peanut has) rather than paint or plastic delineators — which we know will do protect anyone from injury or death and we also know from Edgewood the city authorities will not replace despite claiming it is both "easy" and "affordable" to do so.
2 Comments
XYZ (Registered User)
Tommy (Registered User)
Yes, the peanut-shaped roundabout appears to have sufficiently slowed traffic. The intersection is safer.
I'm having a difficult time trying to visualize what you've described. In reference to the sidewalks on Chapel Street alongside Edgewood park, what does the following mean?
"...𝙬𝙖𝙡𝙠𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙞𝙩 𝙤𝙣𝙘𝙚 𝙖𝙜𝙖𝙞𝙣 𝙢𝙚𝙖𝙣𝙨 𝙝𝙖𝙫𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙣𝙤 𝙥𝙝𝙮𝙨𝙞𝙘𝙖𝙡 𝙗𝙪𝙛𝙛𝙚𝙧 𝙗𝙚𝙩𝙬𝙚𝙚𝙣 𝙮𝙤𝙪 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙘𝙖𝙧𝙨..."
Those sidewalks look exactly like most of the other sidewalks in our city. Are you requesting to have a barrier installed between the street and the sidewalk?
Also, can you clarify what you mean about pedestrians and micro-mobility users? I don't see any problems with vehicular, bicycle, or pedestrian traffic at the peanut. There are pedestrian crosswalks, and bicycles just go with the flow of cars.