The City of Hudson is looking to improve safety at intersections throughout the city.
Toward that end, the City is asking residents and frequent visitors to the city to complete a survey to help prioritize the intersections most in need of safety improvements. That survey can be found here.
Lowest hanging fruit: make Front and Warren and three way stop. It’s kinda insane it already isn’t. Just costs two stop signs. Done ✅
ReplyDeleteGovernment by survey is akin to abdication of leadership. Union Jack is correct — just look around, see what needs doing and do it. Second street one way, Union, too.
ReplyDeleteBut real traffic improvement - dealing with the truck route - can’t be surveyed to a solution. That requires actual political and moral leadership between the City and at least one of our state reps, neither of whom have the will or chops (it seems) to do the actual work. Perhaps if our mayor pushed publicly he could shame one of them to actually do something besides publish press releases and issue meaningless proclamations.
I’m afraid the mayor is not going to publicly shame the state reps since he seems to want to be at every photo op they’re in. Doesn’t seem to want to step on any toes on the path to Albany. This is why a city manager would be nice. To finally have a chief executive who’s focused on keeping their current job in Hudson and not a stepping stone to a career in Albany and DC. It’s like DeBlasio at the Iowa State Fair
DeleteThe survey is missing some obvious ones. Like Front and Warren, as I’ve mentioned, or State and Fifth; where people zooming down the State Street Speedway™️ blow past the stop sign, especially dangerous as families and seniors walk to the library. A traffic signal is likely needed. Or at least flashing crosswalk.
ReplyDeleteThe city should prioritize the lowest hanging fruit by what’s cheapest and quick to fix: adding signs ($100s), new traffic signals (tens of $1,000s), then finally redoing intersections like the triangles (millions $$$).