Drivers might get a bit confused if they have to drive over the colorful brick designers envisioned at the 21st and Broadway intersection, traffic engineers say. So they're ditching the bricks. Instead of the circular design seen in the image to the left, the intersection will have brick crosswalks that use three colors of brick and form pyramids. It's not clear if the pillar will remain.
Planners consider the intersection one of the gateways into the proposed Nomar International business district, which aims to revitalize 21st Street. (Learn more about the proposed district on the city's web site.) The city will likely pay about $300,000 to have two large utility poles moved and about $1.5 million to buy the right-of-way to build a larger intersection. That will include buying Sandy's Furniture.
Thursday, June 28, 2007
Colorful brick pulled from future Nomar International district
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Duh! The city trafffic engineers need to know that there are incredible large amount of drunks,and old people with bad vision in that area. Do NOT put traffic barriers in the middle of the road, or I'll bet you a pizza it will get hit within the first 3 months, and maybe kill somebody's grandma or drunk neighbor.-I live up here and I know.
The city should learn from the swerve (round-about) they put in at Douglas and Sycamore. The cattle are confused by this obstacle in the flow of Douglas traffic. They stop when the shouldn't and don't yeild when someone is actually going to turn onto Sycamore. Sycamore is a lightly traveled road. I would hate to see the confusion, and accidents when a round-about is tried at two heavily traveled roads.
Round-abouts fell out of favour decades ago for good reason. If you ever had to drive in a city that had them then you'll know how difficult and stressful they are to negotiate, the biggest problem being that the tight curve hides the cars next to you from your mirrors. don't bring them back to accent style over safety.
The city should learn from the swerve (round-about) they put in at Douglas and Sycamore. The cattle are confused by this obstacle in the flow of Douglas traffic. They stop when the shouldn't and don't yeild when someone is actually going to turn onto Sycamore. Sycamore is a lightly traveled road. I would hate to see the confusion, and accidents when a round-about is tried at two heavily traveled roads.
Round-abouts fell out of favour decades ago for good reason. If you ever had to drive in a city that had them then you'll know how difficult and stressful they are to negotiate, the biggest problem being that the tight curve hides the cars next to you from your mirrors. don't bring them back to accent style over safety.
vI live in this neighborhood and I would be happy if they would just fix the road up and get rid of the R.R tracks. We don't need anything fancy; just give us what other neighborhoods have.
With a roundabout at 21st and Broadway, what's going to happen the first time a high-speed chase goes tearing through that intersection..."Blood on Broadway". Use some brains, roundabouts are cute in parks, dangerous everywhere else.
Oh good, something that will be stolen to buy drugs or handguns...just what they need!
I believe that "round abouts" are the most dangerous traffic device known to mankind. I have to grit my teeth everytime I drive through the one on Douglas & Sycamore.
Roundabouts should be outlawed. I have no idea why anyone in the city's planning department thinks they are a good idea. They DO NOT help the flow of traffic. They impede it. No one that I know of likes them. Please come up with another plan.
I and many people I know love round-abouts. They work great. I guess it just requires actually paying attention to your driving. A hundred times better than a 4-way stop that no one seems to know how to negotiate anymore.
Many roundabouts incorporate a 4-Way stop. With a roundabout, drivers still have to know how to handle a four way stop, and also how to yield to the oncoming traffic coming at them, which may or may not be continuing around the circle. I've even had drivers who intended to go 3/4 of the way around the circle STOP to yield to me when I was at a stop sign. It has nothing to to with not paying attention to ones driving. It has to do with confusion of the average driver over what the heck to do with this old fashioned obsticle. They were all over the place when I lived back east, probably put in when horses were confused be them. I've also experienced them in Mexico. Gosh what a cluster, but maybe that's why one has been proposed for 21st & Broadway. A little taste of home.
If you, anonymous above, have trouble with four way stops, perhaps you should hang up your car keys.
Since the roundy at Douglas and Sycamore confuses people to no end, lets try adding two more lanes each direction and probably multiplying the traffic by about 10X for 21st and Broadway.
Think again, city planners.
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