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909-999 South Grant Street
- Case Date:
- 5/31/2015
I leave near the corner of South Grant Street and East Allen Street. When traveling south on Grant, there is a stop sign at Allen St where it is truly impossible to safely see if any traffic is coming from the West. The vegetation is so overgrown on this corner that it goes several meters beyond the stop sign. Since there is no stop sign for drivers traveling East or West on Allen, drivers on Grant Street have to inch out slowly halfway into the intersection until gaining any visibility around the vegetation. Please send somebody to remove the vegetation on this corner or I'll end up doing it myself. It's far too dangerous for a road where there are almost always cyclists which wouldn't be as easily seen or heard as a car.
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900-912 South Hawthorne Drive
- Case Date:
- 8/3/2016
Day lilies on the west make it difficult to see the street when travelling north bound at Hawthorne and Maxwell. Difficult to see oncoming traffic when trying to turn right or left.
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844-886 N Orris Dr
- Case Date:
- 5/30/2012
Two very large pine trees block the view going into the curve on N. Orris Drive. There have almost been numerous accidents, because of the lack of sight from the overgrown trees into the street/curb.
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820 W 2ND ST
- Case Date:
- 7/2/2013
800 Block of W. 2nd St(2nd and Euclid):from Euclid turning on to 2nd, it is difficult to see looking East to turn out on 2nd due to plants.
900 Block of W. 3rd St: Sidewalk blocked by plants on the North side of the street.
700 Block of W. Smith: Impassable due to overgrown plants and trees.
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575-599 East 12th Street
- Case Date:
- 1/20/2017
Shrubs at NW corner of intersection make it very difficult to see cars travelling south on Indiana while parked at intersection on 12th heading east.
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520 S Fess AVE
- Case Date:
- 5/27/2013
2nd and fess, tree overgrown blocking stop sign
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431 East 10th Street
- Case Date:
- 7/10/2017
South-bound vehicles on Dunn cannot see oncoming east-bound traffic on 10th due to overgrowth of weeds on this property (NW corner of 10th and Dunn.)
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429 E Allen ST
- Case Date:
- 7/23/2015
The north-west intersection of South Grant and East Allen is so heavily overgrown that it is impossible to see east bound traffic on Allen when heading south on Grant. It is an accident waiting to happen.
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413-415 South Washington Street
- Case Date:
- 8/21/2017
There is no yellow curb north of the parking garage at the new Urban Station apartments on Washington, meaning that cars can park right up to the entrance. This makes the field of vision for vehicles leaving the garage very poor. Compounding this is the issue of cars briefly double parking alongside the car immediately north of the exit to pick up and drop off tenants.This is especially problematical because there is a bike lane right up against the parked cars. As I was typing this, I saw a car nearly hit one cyclist in the bike lane and two children riding on the sidewalk. I have also seen a few close calls between vehicles. The only thing preventing accidents at this point is the large moving vehicles parking in the bike lane, forcing bikes to move over to where they can be seen. A yellow curb to the north would greatly help expand visibility for drivers exiting the parking garage.
Additionally, now that riding on the sidewalk is legal and I just saw two children nearly hit by a car exiting from the garage, I think it would be prudent to have a mirror installed so drivers can see the sidewalk before exiting--not sure if this would be a city issue or an issue with Urban Station itself.
Being that these apartments have been occupied for only four days and I have witnessed one accident, three or four vehicular close calls, and two vehicle-bicycle close calls, I hope the city gives this problem area the attention it needs. As is, it is only a matter of time before a serious collision occurs.
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401-417 North Grant Street
- Case Date:
- 1/20/2017
At the NW corner of Grant and 8th there is a shrub that blocks the view of oncoming traffic when one is waiting at the intersection on Grant heading south. The traffic on 8th is sometimes quite fast, and there are often also parked cars nearby make this a dangerous intersection. It is especially bad during summer when the shrubs are in leaf. They should not just be trimmed but instead removed completely from the corner.