closed #178461
Street & Traffic Signs
756 S Walnut St, Bloomington, IN 47401, USA
- Case Date:
- 12/21/2021
Cars go the wrong way on Dodds between Walnut and College almost every day. There are no One Way or Do Not Enter signs to help prevent this.
Cars go the wrong way on Dodds between Walnut and College almost every day. There are no One Way or Do Not Enter signs to help prevent this.
A temporary "Utility Work Ahead" sign has been abandoned alongside S.Highland by Winslow Farm Rd for about three months. The city could probably use this sign.
Rhorer Road needs plowed and salted. Eastbound lane appears almost untouched in a large section. Turning lanes at walnut /Rhorer are not touched. Turning onto Sareat Rhorer is a mess too. 10:30 am on 2/17. Please plow and salt .
Stop sign heading West on 7th is blocked from view by tree.
East 7th is unique in that it is two parallel roads each with its own signage. Stop signs have been installed, removed and reinstalled at various intersections. No where else is there traffic going the opposite direction (west) on both sides of an eastbound vehicular lane. Nor is there another pair of lanes going east with a westbound lane in between them anywhere else in town. The stop signs become more critical due to the additional complexity. Going east the vehicular lanes cannot see their signs. The bike next to me yesterday blew thru every sign while pointing at drivers at the intersections. When the motorized bike, electric scooter etc. keeps going as he did the car driver will instinctively assume the same especially if there isn't a sign visible until the last minute. Delivery trucks, city maintenance vehicles, and trash bins blocking one or the other at times create confusion. Remove the trees and, if a barrier is deemed necessary, plant low bushes.
Wednesday evening 7:30pm: maroon Toyota Rav4 with New Jersey license plates traveling west on 12th Street turned south on Lincoln (against the One-Way direction) and then speeded to the alley where it turned and parked in the back (north side) of this house. This almost caused an accident, and is a recurring problem with this particular address and vehicle ever since August when the new occupants moved in. Likely an undergraduate, possibly one who is either illiterate or just intellectually handicapped, or perhaps the person simply feels entitled to break Indiana driving laws (maybe there are no laws in New Jersey), but more likely it is just an inconsiderate, self-serving, and dangerous person who disregards rules that s/he deems inconvenient and someone who needs to be held accountable. Please do something about this - pedestrians (human and otherwise) rely on the manner and direction of traffic to be consistent and are not expecting vehicles traveling at relatively high rates of speed and headed in the wrong direction.
Many drivers passing East or West on Dodds do not realize that Lincoln Street (one-way, Northbound) traffic does not have a stop sign. I live on this corner, and work from home in sight of this intersection, and I see many many close calls, as well as accidents as traffic coming full speed North on Lincoln are suddenly confronted with drivers on Dodds who have stopped, and then started into the intersection, assuming they have the right of way. Could we possibly get "cross traffic does not stop" added to the Dodds stop signs? I doubt that the accident reports fully reflect the dangers.
Missing stop sign: The stop sign for Mitchell heading north at Maxwell is on the ground due to sidewalk construction. I just saw a car zoom through this intersection, heading north on Mitchell, without a pause. Since traffic does not stop on Maxwell, this would be dangerous if a car on Maxwell was also in the intersection.
Following up with case #193627: at least one of the residents at 801 N. Lincoln is driving west on 11th Street from Lincoln (against the One-Way direction) to get to the parking places. Even though it's only a half-block, they should obey the rules because people walk on that street regularly (there are no sidewalks) and they are not expecting a car to be racing toward them out of the blue from the wrong direction. You can tell he has done it when his parked car is angled toward the NW.
Not sure which category this belongs under. Lying on the north side of 11th Street about 1/3 of the way from Lincoln walking towards Washington is a large signage support that was likely stolen from a construction site or utility project. It does not have a sign attached, it's just the support. Maybe the City can figure out who it belongs to (?)