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?
that is just Ghetto
I agree with the law enforcement ideas. For a city that enjoys collecting revenue from parking tickets, I don’t understand why criminal and potentially deadly acts like blowing through stop signs and red lights go largely unpunished. For an intersection like Dean and Boerum Place, where I have witnessed at least three pedestrians hit by cars over the past few years, I would think the city could collect some hefty fines by doling out tickets to the cars that use Dean St as an autobahn to Park Slope and beyond, and maybe save some lives in the process.
I live on Dekalb, and sometimes I’ll just sit on my stoop watching what these cars get away with – absolutely ridiculous. Music blasting, blowing through red lights, speeding around cars in the bike lane. No regard for pedestrians or other drivers. If the NYPD enforced traffic laws on Dekalb alone they’d make a fortune.
as mentioned above, a ticketing bliz would get the word out and end this
speed bumps all around, thats what we need. You need to physically slow cars, not just expect them to stick to non-enforced rules. I am car driver before I get accused of being automobilist.
As a parent who walks down this street with my kids some times I have to say that something definitely needs to be done about the way people use Waverly as a highspeed short cut. Such a small street for that kind of recklessness.
This accident actually happened Tuesday evening… It was quite the scene and I really couldn’t figure out how a car could get flipped and spun around the way that it was.
Cops rarely enforce speeding along this section of Dekalb – even though it’s 3 blocks from the police statino. If you happen to get a green light at St. James/Hall it means no stops between Classon and Washington. Cars can really pick up speed.
I drive & walk on waverly all the time and rarely see any speeding. Guess I’m lucky on my timing & have avoided these idiots
mopar,
it’s all types of cars speeding down Waverly, not just car service cars