At the Common Council Legal Committee meeting last Thursday, Councilmember Jason Foster (Third Ward) shared these photographs of accidents that have happened on Green Street--accidents involving drivers rear-ending parked cars. Foster presented the photographs as evidence that Green Street needed more striping.
Green Street currently has yellow lines at the approaches to the intersection with Fairview Avenue, but for most of its length, Green Street was no center line or other lane markings.
Foster pointed out that federal regulations specify that streets with daily traffic of 6,000 vehicles or more must have center lines. The traffic on Green Street meets that threshold. In addition to center lines, Foster argued that Green Street needed white lines to demarcate the parking lane and prevent drivers from rear-ending parked cars.
Somehow it doesn't seem likely a driver who fails to recognize that the car in front is not moving would notice a white line, but maybe it would help. Newer cars would likely beep to warn drivers they had strayed out of their lane.
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Speaking of stripes and zebras... who decides when and where to move pedestrian crossing stripes, like the ones in front of Hudson Hall?
ReplyDeleteNot saying the change is good or bad... just curious if there are now two sets of zebra crossings 15 meters apart, and is this a DPW decision, or does it follow some sort of NY State procedure?
Can we request zebra stripes anywhere?
What is the RFZ (Request For Zebra) process?
May set off some locals who are obsessive about street repairs...
p.s. this change was brought to our attention by local cyclists...
The answer to your question is in this post: https://gossipsofrivertown.blogspot.com/2025/10/crosswalk-change-in-offing.html
DeleteThe question of how many crosswalks there are and how closely spaced out is entirely immaterial in light of the fact that no one knows what they mean anyway.
DeleteNeither drivers nor pedestrians, by the way. If I'm in my car and stop at a crosswalk for a pedestrian to cross, I get a confused look.
Thank you Gossips -
DeleteThis is the sort of thing that could go into the every other week City Hall newsletter (DPW Section) so that residents do not have to read private blogs across many years and several administrations to follow what is happening.