Trying to slow people down in response to a bunch of pedestrian deaths

https://patch.com/connecticut/newhaven/death-blvd-safety-fixes-delayed

It's a speedway on the best of days. Hopefully they slow it down.

This tiktok has some info as to why: https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTRb2s1nC/

Its called road diet, they do it all over the country, it to control you,

Why not build raised crossings and better pedestrian infrastructure instead of narrowing traffic lanes which I imagine will cause even more traffic? Obviously pedestrian safety is priority but this feels like a band-aid. You fix the problem with actual pedestrian and bike focused infrastructure that keeps cars from physically hitting them.

Edit: dowvoted for... promoting effective infrastructure that actually saves lives.... okay...?

Just fyi linking from tik tok reveals your full name

To stop the drag racing that goes on in those stretches. See want to redo the intersection at RT 1 also to our crossing signals in that people will push the button and cross without the ok to do so. Also, surprised that some of those professional panhandlers in that intersection don’t get hit with the way they aggressively go between traffic.

I agree bike lanes should be separated, but forcing people to walk across a few specific crossings (that will likely never get built anyways due to building cost and maintenance) will just make people want to jaywalk anyways. Also pedestrian overpasses just kinda suck for pedestrians as well, look at some of the overpasses and plazas in Hartford, nobody uses them.

To build that infrastructure you first need to reclaim space from cars, so it's a good start. Might be a budget issue not to go all-in with the pedestrian infrastructure.

I drive down that part of the blvd almost daily and still somehow forget about this everyday (still) and wind up in the right lane and have to merge back over. This isn’t helpful for the conversation, I’m just dumb.

She lost weight.

Thanks for the heads up! I don’t really mind on this account and I think it only does if you open in the app, in which case I also get notified of who viewed it

They do. That corner has had the most deaths of any intersection in the area for a few years now. I remember reading an article a few years ago saying it was the most deadly intersection in the state.

They're going to. It's just for now. I live off a side street from El Grasso. They were racing there all night every night. A couple weeks before they put the cones up an elderly man was killed from racers, before that 2 kids, before that another kid, last year a few more. A temp fix is better than nothing.

This was done to stop the racing any way they could, as quick as the could.

Oh I didn't realize it was specifically people racing causing the danger

It seems like New Haven in general does a pretty shit job of using signage to indicate changes like this

Saw what looked like a woman in an Accord PURPOSELY hitting a pedestrian crossing that intersection recently. She didn’t hit him hard at all, it was more of a tap, but enough that I called her plate in to police. It was a NY plate so they prob weren’t able to do anything.