At the intersection of West 3rd Street & South Walnut Street: The pedestrian "Walk" illumination for pedestrians walking NB from the SW corner to the NW corner is not working as of 1:15 p.m. today. I apologize for not having a photo. Thanks!
I frequently drive through the intersection of Hillside and Henderson, often approaching it from the south (on Henderson). I hope the city can consider putting a "No Right on Red" sign there. This intersection has students from Templeton and South High School as pedestrians and cyclists (and from South as drivers). When you are turning right/east from Henderson onto Hillside, you do not have visibility until you have pulled forward into the crosswalk across Henderson. Because of the difficulty seeing if you have a clearing, I can imagine someone wanting to speed into a right turn...but it is a very populated corner with Feast there and apartments and Templeton close by, and pedestrians in the crosswalk could be at risk. I have counseled my daughter, who is learning to drive, not to try to turn right until the light turns green (and to wait to signal till then). If you have your turn signal on, people behind you can get impatient...a stressful situation for a new driver. And since there is a lot of traffic going to and from the high school, this intersection has a high concentration of new drivers. A friend of hers on a bike was hit last year at that intersection.
I live across the street from this four way stop. At the STOP sign I have in the past (I admitted a UReport) and also and today seen a couple of cars that have not stopped at the sign. This is very concerning and the pin oak tree needs to be trimmed back. Thanks for reading.
Inoperable vehicle in driveway. There are at least two flat tires on a small red pickup truck.
Requesting use of speed bumps or some sort of traffic mitigation device. As the new neighborhood is being built west of our location it has led to increased traffic and significant danger. Cherokee Drive is barely wide enough for two cars to pass in some areas and with increased traffic it is unsafe for children and pets. In addition, driver's have sped through when people are outside and yelled threats to people in the neighborhood. Cherokee Drive is the first access point to this neighborhood from the north on Rogers and therefore receiving the bulk of traffic especially during traditional evening commute hours.
There is road work being done, closing the easternmost northbound lane of Walnut in the intersection. The normally middle lane has signs marking it as right turn only, meaning cars going straight north are supposed to get into the left turn lane where they get stuck behind cars waiting to turn left. And those are the cars that obey the right turn only signs. Most don't. They use what is being called right turn only to go straight. Therefore, at times, cars from both lanes are trying to go straight at once. They need to take those signs down and just let everyone going north OR turning right to use that lane. Right turns rarely hold up traffic there, but left turns always do. With people using both lanes to go north and users of each thinking the other guy is wrong, it's causing conflicts, near misses, and road rage.