Comments for “Duke/Gregson Corridor Study”
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Cars consistently speed down this intersection of Lakewood avenue as they approach the school zone, endangering all school pedestrian and vehicular traffic. It is primarily cars coming through the intersection of Vickers and Lakewood. Many of these cars are going 10 mph over the designated speedlimit.
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Speed control on Vickers! We need speed bumps and more crosswalks.
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Need signs to limit/reduce parking at the bottom of Proctor St. Cars are often left there for days/weeks. Especially when they are parked near the bottom of the hill this reduces visibility when turning left from Proctor onto Duke ST (the bushes/hedges in front of the Hill House also reduce visibility here)
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Improved speed control at this intersection - agree with other comments re hill reducing visibility and accidents occurring as a result.
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The entire intersection is not pedestrian friendly in any way. Cars speeding, no dedicated cross walks time or call buttons, cars not paying attention.
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Agree with other comments: there needs to be more crosswalks here. And sidewalks--they vanish! Like, the crosswalk takes you across the street and then the side walk ends 10 feet later.
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I've lived near thus intersection for 20 years and witnessed/heard numerous accidents. One person, at least, died here. People speed down both roads; limited visibility, especially for those zooming into the intersection on Lakewood coming from the west. I know Vickers is a "bus route" or whatever, but we need speed bumps, or a roundabout or more stop lights...anything to slow people down. Or else, someone else will be dead. Guaranteed.
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This intersection is terrible - visibility is almost non-existent due to the many cars from the car lot being parked along Lakewood and Duke st. Add to that the fast speeds of cars turning onto Duke from University, and general confusion of the many roads crossing here. This intersection needs to be radically overhauled.
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Major traffic calming needs to be implemented on Vickers. There are multiple schools and parks, with many kids and adults walking along and crossing the street.
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This intersection needs to be completely reconfigured. Cars go too fast down Vickers and visibility is very poor on all sides. Perhaps a small roundabout?
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The Parker / Shepherd intersection desparately needs to be a 4-way stop. Parked cars along Shepherd make it nearly impossible to see oncoming traffic as you're crossing the intersection from Parker
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Duke should be converted to two-way traffic and this intersection recreated to eliminate the confusion of this area by creating ONE intersection where Duke, Lakewood, and University come together at a stop light with appropriate pedestrian crossing since many folks use this area to get to the grocery and other businesses along this cooridor. Get rid of that silly triangle and create a proper intersection.
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There needs to be a sidewalk from Shepherd to Hill St to make the school and park safely accessible to children. There needs to be crosswalks with call buttons at this intersection so traffic will be aware of pedestrians.
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Since Arosa built this, I have witnessed multiple cars exiting their parking lot on Vickers and go NORTH to Morehead to avoid having to go around the block and, once, witnessed a car drive all the way to Parker to get on the highway. Poor signage and thoughtfulness in how the streets would be used in a residential neighborhood have created this confusion and lack of care by drivers.
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So much speeding and lack of mindfulness that this is a school zone (at least for another year or so). There need to be sidewalks on both sides of the street.
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Many people cross the street here going to their jobs after parking in the West Pettigrew Deck. Because of the curve, the train tracks, speed of cars, it is a very tricky place to cross for walkers. The sidewalk abruptly ends on the west side of Duke just after Memorial Dr. and there is no defined sidewalk over the tracks on either the west or the east side. Creating defined walking spaces and crosswalks would improve the walkability here. Pettigrew is about to be one of the streets that is going to get paved from being a rock road, so car traffic will increase, causing more issues for pedestrians and bikers.
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This highway crossover needs a more pedestrian-friendly railing that would not allow for small children and dogs to easily slip underneath. There should be footlights or overhead lights for pedestrian safety as this is a thoroughfare for walkers to downtown. A reduction in the size of the lanes would be significant to reduce speed.
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It's very dangerous to try and cross the street here. Speeding and the curve make it almost impossible for people, bikes, and cars alike to see one another. There should be a blinking crosswalk call system for cars to be aware of pedestrians and bikers crossing the street here.
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There's a school here, there should be a crosswalks here. Proctor is about to be one of the roads that is getting pavement from being previously gravel, so Hill St a block down, more cars will be traveling in this area after that work is contructed as through traffic will be easier. Several car accidents have already happened at this intersection from speeders on Vickers.
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On multiple occasions while waiting to cross the street going west across Vickers/University from Forest Hills Blvd, cars that were stopped on University waiting on the light, have come down to Forest Hills, swooped into the street as though they were going to turn right on red, only to swoop back out onto University as though they had made a right on red from Forest Hills Blvd. Blatant disregard for pedestrians and for the rules of the road.
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This entire intersection of entrance ramps for 147 on Parker and off of Duke, along with the exit onto Duke, needs to be reconfigured. Parker St entrance ramp should be eliminated. An exit from 147 South to Duke should be constructed. Then an entrance ramp from Duke to 147 South should be constructed to the east of Duke on the south side. These should terminate at a lighted intersection with pedestrian crosswalks. Additionally, exiting 147 North to Duke and entering 147 North from Duke should terminate at a lighted intersection with pedestrian crosswalks. With turning Duke into a two-way street, this would improve traffic off the very congested Chapel Hill entrance/exit, allowing for more options when leaving the city after a baseball game, DPAC, or Carolina Theatre events and giving citizens who live south of Morehead a way to easily access the highway without having to travel north to Chapel Hill or east to Roxboro. Creating two entrances and two exits from Duke would create a more reasonable flow and would feel more traditional from a highway entrance/exit strategy.
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Dangerous intersection with multiple car accidents - visibility is poor, speeding along both Gregson and Chapel Hill and that this a crest-point for both roads, means cars do not see one another with enough distance.
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Previously, sidewalks were constructed along this area to accommodate large trees, which are now gone. The sidewalk is hazardous with missing concrete sections that were once taken up by those trees, resulting in a trip and fall hazard that could put a pedestrian squarely into traffic if they tripped.
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Pedestrians walking north on Vickers cannot cross the street safely. There are no call buttons at the intersection for pedestrian walking, and the traffic lights are hung in such a way that a pedestrian needs to actually step about 4-5 feet into the intersection to see the light signal, which only faces the northbound traffic. There needs to be crosswalks, call buttons, and ADA-compliant traffic signaling in all 4 directions of the intersection.
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Trying to cross Gregson anywhere along this section is very dangerous for walkers. There are no crosswalks and the speeding traffic coming from Main and Gregson cannot see pedestrians until they are around the corner from the new Can Opener Park. The fence surrounding the Public Parking along this corridor has been torn apart many times due to cars plowing into it. Additionally, the sidewalks are broken and in places non-existent making foot travel for those with disabilities or children in strollers difficult, some times resulting in needing to roll into the street.
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