Comments for “Town of Herndon Roadway Safety Action Plan”
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High school students speed. Feels unsafe for residents
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Curves feel very dangerous. Light at help
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Parking on both sides can lead to difficult maneuvers
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Needs to be paved
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Students turning from wrong lane as the light is too slow
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A lot of speeding at 5pm
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This trail crossing is extremely dangerous with bike riders and pedestrians crossing without stopping for oncoming traffic. It’s a miracle someone has not been seriously injured here. I witness close calls daily.
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Top 5 most dangerous intersection in all of Herndon, especially at rush hour in the morning and night. Motorists and cyclists do not obey the stop signs.
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People frequently run this stop sign or do not come to a complete stop.
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A crosswalk and a stop sign is desperately needed here for people crossing from one side of Nash St to the other and to slow down traffic on Spring St.
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Build sidewalk on the south side of Monroe between 1st St and 1st Pl, creating a continuous walkway from downtown to the many neighborhoods and paths both inside and outside Herndon Parkway. It will require acquisition of right-of-way and relocation of a utility pole, but well worth the effort.
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There is constant, dangerous speeding on Van Buren Street, especially between Spring Street and Alabama Drive. This poses a risk when attempting to cross at the crosswalk located at Aspen Drive.
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Cars often do not observe the stop sign.
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Frequent drivers going 50 mph on this road, especially westbound between Drainsville and Crestview
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The new crosswalk markings here are fantastic! I feel safer crossing the street as a pedestrian now that it's marked so well. More like this, please!
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The same set of cars has been parked along this street (long-term vehicle storage) for so many months that weeds and grass are growing through the asphalt, damaging the street itself. Probably legal, but nobody mows the street, so it's not clear how tall the weeds can get before someone takes action.
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Near the entrance to Runnymede Park, the southbound speed limit is 35 mph, and northbound speed limit is 25 mph. The switch between 35 mph to 25 mph seems abrupt, and the locations of the switches seem arbitrary. Consider adding a stretch of 30 mph on Southbound Herndon Pkwy at Worchester St. so the speed slows gradually *before* getting to Runnymede, instead of cars traveling at >35 mph past Runnymede and then stomping on the brakes well past Runnymede at the 25 mph sign just before Reneau Way. The bug difference in speeds between the south and north lanes makes me wonder if a sign is missing.
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Bicyclists don't stop, and I see close calls all the time.
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This is where the Domino's Pizza Truck parks to offload supplies... in the middle of Elden Street. Why can't they park... idunno... in the parking lot? Having cars go around them that close to the intersection is a hazard.
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Double parked and stopped ride-share vehicles (Uber, Lyft, friends doing drop-offs, etc.) make this spot dangerous. Is it possible to add a designated Ride-Share pick-up/drop-off spot for downtown Herndon, so that it's not just happening in the middle of traffic?
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If the light is already green, you can't get a "walk" signal until the cycle completes, which takes seemingly forever. Is there a way to have a "walk" signal initiate if there's still plenty of time left on the green light? People walk against the light because it takes way too long to get a walk signal.
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Crosswalk needed near here. I can't safely cross the street to Moo Thru for ice cream anywhere near here. The nearest controlled intersection is far away.
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Why does the sidewalk have to be in darkness here? This is close to a bus stop, but the nearby vegetation blocks all light. Sometimes people are sitting in the bushes chatting or drinking in the dark. The rest of the stretch is well-lit, but this part is creepy.
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Sidewalk is too narrow here, and it's often blocked by reverse-parked trucks with towing hitches that extend over the sidewalk. On July 4, this spot was impassible to strollers (much less wheel chairs) because the Town of Herndon placed signs for the road closure for the fireworks adjacent to the towing hitch truck, creating a bottleneck that only be fit through one leg at a time.
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Crossing Elden Street in this spot is risky because of the lack of right-turn arrows on the traffic signal for Northbound Herndon PKWY. Just as the walk signal activates, cars can go through with their right turn... exactly when pedestrian-me starts to cross. Even wild arm gestures and eye contact aren't enough to indicate that I'm about to cross the street on that green light. This is especially important for pedestrians rejoining the Sugarland Run Trail.