closed #200627
Traffic Signals
Discovery Pkwy & 10th St
- Case Date:
- 1/29/2025
Right green traffic light on discovery parkway heading to Pete Ellis on 10th is out. Red light works. Unsure about yellow.
Right green traffic light on discovery parkway heading to Pete Ellis on 10th is out. Red light works. Unsure about yellow.
Right-hand northbound green bulb is not working for traffic coming from Pete Ellis.
Intersection of E 10th St. and E. Discovery Parkway has no crosswalk or pedestrian signaling. I have noted numerous people sprinting across from the bus stops adjacent to the USPS building and Fountain Park Apartments. It appears to be a busy enough pedestrian area, whether it be to access the College Mall area, get to the post office, or otherwise make it back to one's home.
This intersection is problematic for drivers, cyclists, and pedestrians. There's often a queue to turn left and cars often wait an entire light cycle to do so. Because of that, drivers tend to try to go around the vehicle waiting for the left turn, which makes the intersection more dangerous for everybody. Would it be a good idea to make the leftmost lane left turn only? Also, there are pedestrian/cyclist paths on three quadrants of the intersection, but no crosswalks and no walk/wait signals.
10th St. and Discovery Parkway is way overdue for safe pedestrian infrastructure. As you can see, it's close to a post office, several employers on Discovery Parkway, and several apartment buildings. It's also serviced by city transit. But it's entirely unsafe for pedestrian crossing and seems like it's not even set up for that. Please invest in making it more usable for people to be able to safely cross 10th from Discovery to get to Pete Ellis.
On right side, on Discovery Pkwy, heading to 10th, right before the light. Big enough to drive into and out of, lol. THANK YOU AS ALWAYS!!!
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The islands of trees surrounded by curbs that are being constructed in the roadways throughout the city. I’m wondering why the city is installing them since they’re already responsible for the death of a deputy sheriff who died from her injuries sustained during a traffic accident in which she was responding with lights and sirens to a call got hit going threw a red light and the ambulance was called but unable to get there for an extended period of time due to the trees and curbs constructed in the roadways throughout the city leaving no room for the ambulance to navigate around pulled over vehicles. I thought that when the city removed the brand new islands that they had constructed that they would find a better speed diversion, or would at least limit the construction of new islands but instead we now have many islands that make it nearly impossible to turn onto certain roads and streets due to the lack of room because of the brick filled curbed islands and trees. It seems ridiculous to me that the people are paying for obstacles in the roadway that make it nearly impossible to drive on the streets in Bloomington. They are wonderful for bicycling and walking however seeing as the city of Bloomington does not enforce no riding bikes on the sidewalks I don’t see much importance in having bicycle lanes in the roads since people on bicycles are allowed to ride their bikes on the sidewalks, which is extremely dangerous in my opinion but I’ve witnessed hundreds of bicyclist on the sidewalks in the downtown district and on Kirkwood, where there are police station within feet of them riding their bikes on the sidewalk and no attempt to stop them has been made.
As the weather warms up, there are more and more bicyclists on the sidewalk on the square one just nearly ran over my toddler and me. I told him he was in a dismount zone. He asked where that was posted and I was unable to find a sign with that information. If that has not been repealed, it needs to be better communicated and enforced. Thank you.
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