Other: Hello. We received notice that our street is looking at a traffic calming preapplication. It appears criteria include items such as police reports. Though that sort of data is important please please consider that reality is beyond just what the data paint. We pushed two cars out that drove into our yard in the snow already this week on east morningside and just now noticed another individual going much much too fast down the road while texting. Please look at the experiences of those who live on the street, complaints, maybe even photos households have, and otherwise solicit input of residents on the affected possible roads for improvements. Thank you.
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Hi there! Thank you for your comment and reaching out to use. While I believe and support the idea that we should also be considering the stories of people who lived on the streets and reports of near misses, doing so presents some subjectivity into our project ranking process. The policy was written specifically to focus on objective data, as we know that without champions to point out their concerns, that there is potential to overlook areas where there is both a prevalence of people likely to be harmed in collisions between automobiles and pedestrians (our research suggests in Bloomington these are residents in predominantly low income areas, and renters) and an incidence of behaviors likely to cause harm (speeding, crashes, number of people injured). Please let me know if you would like to discuss more, I'd be happy to talk to you more about it.