Comments for “Duke/Gregson Corridor Study”
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I cross here daily with my child going to George Watts school. It always feels highly risky, as the sight line is nearly blind and cars travel south at high speeds. Daylighting the intersection to allow for better visibility and reducing a travel lane would make the crossing much safer!
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The City spent a substantial sum to replace the sidewalks on the west side of Gregson Street to make them accessible during 2020. A home was built here a year or two later and the City permitted the builder to tear-up a clean, concrete sidewalk and replace it was asphalt.
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The sidewalk south of Minerva Ave is used very heavily, including by people that park in the student parking lot at DSA for events and use wheelchairs, walkers and canes. It is almost impassible, defeating the purpose of having ADA accessible sidewalks in heavily foot-trafficked areas.
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Residents turning into their driveways along Vickers frustrate drivers who expect to be traveling at 35+mph - and they often honk and/or make unsafe lane changes to avoid.
Residents have, more than once, made turns from the wrong lane (e.g. left turn from right lane going south) and caused accidents due to multiple lanes being available.
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We walk our dogs and our toddler here, and it is very scary because people turn onto either Knox or Englewood from N. Duke or Gregson going extremely fast. It feels like it is a recipe for disaster, but we don't have a choice because there is no other place to walk.
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Perhaps outside of this study, but this spot and the spot at the Ruby st intersection are very confusing and chaotic. Lots of traffic, many directions, high speeds, hard to turn right onto Ruby. Definitely impossible to turn left from Ruby onto Duke st.
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People just fly here and go SO FAST.
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I think this pedestrian crossing is better than the others. Still needs improvement. But, the sign in the middle of the street and the paint that separates the lanes and narrows them helps to increase attention and slow people down.
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It's very easy to fly down the street here and go WAY too fast.
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I have to turn right onto Proctor to drop off my child at Camelot. However, cars don't expect other cars to be turning. So, they are going way too fast, not expecting me to slow down. I often worry I'll get rear-ended as I turn right.
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Speeds all along here are out of control
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the only place to exit the parking lot is in the middle of the block because of the shrubs. There's no break in shrubs at the corner where the crosswalks are. So, of course, everyone crosses Gregson at the parking lot entrance, which isn't at a crosswalk.
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Despite being one-way, parents often drive the wrong direction because they don't want to wait for busses to leave. I'm not sure if they're even allowed to use minerva to drop off students, but they do, and then turn around and go the wrong way.
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The obvious problem here is that there is NO SIDEWALK
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Kids walk here on the dirt path, not on the sidewalk, while cars zoom by so fast. Lets protect our kids!
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I want to have a vibrant downtown with shopping, restaurants, and places for people to congregate. We have awesome shops here but it's scary to try and go into them because the sidewalk is way too narrow and cars are speeding by. not to mention that the only parking lot in the area is a scam, so you're motivated to park farther away. This means walking to the shops, which is very scary. How are we supposed to have a thriving city if people can't walk to spend money in its businesses?
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Crossing the street here in any direction is extremely scary
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Cars go around this turn super fast, without being able to actually see what is at the intersection. at school drop-off there are kids everywhere, leaving DSA at this intersection. Cars can't even see what is there but still zoom around this curve.
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Kids are dropped off all along this stretch of Gregson. They run across the street, through traffic, not just at the crosswalk. Cars aren't looking for them at all.
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this strip of the road also has an extremely narrow grassy strip separating the sidewalk from the road. AND the sidewalk is in poor condition. Cars are going WAY too fast. It's very scary and dangerous.
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DSA school busses come down minerva and then cross Gregson here. They look up Gregson for oncoming traffic but do not look across the street to see if there are pedestrians or kids walking, which means they frequently almost run people (usually kids) over here.
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This parking lot belongs to the church, however DSA parents park here during drop-off/pick-up. they turn out left onto gregson and look right for oncoming cars. However, kids are walking north on gregson and the cars turning out of the lot don't even look left to see who might be walking in front of their car.
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Here there is poor visibility of pedestrians (even if cars were looking, which they aren't). during DSA drop-off and pickup there are kids everywhere and cars frequently turn left onto Minerva without looking for pedestrians. They come around the corner so fast that its very scary. Many students are walking to/from school here and are not as traffic-aware. Very scary.
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Cars stop well into the crosswalk during red lights, leaving little room for walking.
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DSA School busses turn left here onto Gregson. They're in a hurry so they frequently run yellow lights and drive right in front of pedestrians nearly hitting people trying to cross the street. Same thing happens with other cars as well, but the school bus situation is especially concerning and scary.
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