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So after all this ranting and raving, what are the Solutions:
(1) Council changes their votes
(2) Monies are found to make the street one way
(3) Traffic count
(4) Fence/lights around tree
(5) Fundraiser to pay for street flow change
(6) Julia Butterfly in Burlingame
– Written by Fiona
Try number one (they didn’t need to vote on this Monday in the first place), and then four: rail, reflectors and signs. Cheap and to the point. Then, just as has been done for decades on all those other perpendicular streets, you go around the cars or the tree “single-file.” Use your manners and it actually works.
PS. For those who run the stop signs, at that intersection, as has been implied, shame on you–then you deserve to bump the bottom of your car.
One blogger made the best point: due to parked cars, many of our streets are deemed one-way. Concerning safety, one can potentially hit a parked car or a Heritage Tree. If the tree is hacked, will the city consider red no-parking zones on all the other narrow streets, and then destroy the parked cars that are in violation?
The distance between the “root bump” and the curb is the same as the distance I have to negotiate my street between parked cars.
Yes, rails, reflectors and signs..and I would add “no right turn”.
Yes, all good points. Are they going to keep all the parked cars off those narrow streets? I was thinking the same thing. “No Right Turn” would be a great idea.
We need to remember the intersection is currently a four-way stop, so this helps eliminate the possibility of a car speeding through the intersection. The stop sign, also, offers the driver of a w/b car on Easton to see the “root hump” prior to crossing the intersectionl.
The BULBOUT (fence and rail or the likes) idea was offered some time ago as a possible solution; evidently this idea fell on deaf ears, I wonder why? As it has been pointed out this “root hump” is approximately the same width as a parked car, so what is the difference.
Speaking of narrow streets caused by parked cars, I would like to invite everyone to drive between Hillside and Easton on Vancouver. This street is lined with parked cars and if you have the pleasure of meeting a car coming in the opposite direction one of the drivers is going to have to pull over because there isn’t enough room for cars to pass if they meet between two parked cars.
The city could do as they have done on Burlingame Ave between Vancouver and El Camino. The city made one side of the road a no parking zone, so why couldn’t the city make Easton driving from Vancouver to El Camino a no parking area?
Heck the street do not change in size, but the houses get bigger, there are more cars on the street, and a lot of the remodles are not required to have sufficient garages and driveways to accomodate the more cars, etc.
Maybe it is time to change the current paradign regarding the FAR and make houses smaller, driveways bigger, and ALL remodels should be required to have a two car garage.
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