Another Crash on Waverly
This just in from a reader…there’s been another crash on Waverly Avenue in Clinton Hill, this time at the corner of Dekalb. (There was another crash at the corner of Willoughby last month.) “Cars continue to careen down Waverly like the Indy 500 blowing all the stop signs,” writes the tipster. Time for some stop…
This just in from a reader…there’s been another crash on Waverly Avenue in Clinton Hill, this time at the corner of Dekalb. (There was another crash at the corner of Willoughby last month.) “Cars continue to careen down Waverly like the Indy 500 blowing all the stop signs,” writes the tipster. Time for some stop lights, isn’t it?
Nice pants. Grown men in little boy clothes = Douchebags= Assholes who drive too fast in their SUV with the bass pumping=Fuckin NYC rednecks.
A lot of SUVs in the neighborhood drive very fast
Ya dittoburg. It’s frogger every morning : /
Thanks for the sarcasm kedalb. To continue your theme, we’re all very concerned about those who treat driving cars like its a video game and the lives of those around them as instantly replenishable.
Speeding traffic on DeKalb is biggest problem. Pulling out from Waverly has become easier since parking on the north side of DeKalb was eliminated, but the right lane of DeKalb has become a speed zone.
Prevailing traffic speed in DeKalb’s middle and left lanes (the bike lane gets frequent rush hour car traffic) is usually modest but cars fly down the right hand lane passing slower traffic when there’s a red light at Clinton backing cars up east to Hall St. or further.
One solution would be curbs that enter the street, like on Lafayette and Adelphi. Another solution would be ridges or cobblestones in the right hand lane on DeKalb, which wouldn’t impede bus traffic at all but would prohibit high speeds in other vehicles.
Another way to cut down Waverly accidents would be making Waverly one way in the opposite direction for a block or two, so there’s no thru traffic from Park Ave. to Atlantic.
Go Here…
http://www.nyc.gov/html/mail/html/mailnypd.html
And send a message to the Commissioner of the NYPD that traffice violation ENFORCEMENT needs to happen!!
It’s easy to type a note. Enough of them, and they’ll start to get the message.
I live on that corner and was at home when it happened. As best as I can tell, a gypsy cab was coming down dekalb and clipped the front end of the SUV as it was heading south on waverly.
That flipped the SUV onto it’s side and it slid down and hit the silver car parked on the corner.
And for all of you who were asking, both drivers seemed to be OK.
I cross Waverly twice a day on my bicycle (once on Dekalb and once on Willoughby) and have to say this definitely freaks me out. In particular, I caution all of my friends about Waverly and Willoughby (because the bike lane is closer to oncoming traffic), but both are dangerous. ALWAYS slow and check for traffic when you bike across these intersections. I’ve been glad I did several times before.
I’m not a fan of stop lights: people see a green light and it is green, no matter how many small children are still making their way across the intersection.
We need traffic enforcement and physical traffic calming, like neckdowns at the intersection that force traffic to slow down.
And … this looks like an SUV, no? Aren’t they famously easy to flip?