closed #172877
Blocked Street
Bloomington City Hall
- Case Date:
- 6/27/2020
Clark and 7th overgrowth into eastbound bike lane
Clark and 7th overgrowth into eastbound bike lane
This motorhome has been parked in this spot for the last 3 weeks. It is parked 10 feet in front of a No Parking sign and is blocking part of the street. Two cars cannot pass each other in this area.
The residents of B-Line heights Apartments have been put in a risky spot. The construction lot directly north of us has allowed workers to park at the edge of the property. This blocks the view pulling out of the apartments. There have been multiple times I have witnessed cars almost getting into accidents because of not being able to see as they pull out. I am aware that the construction will be going on for awhile but there needs to be a better parking situation for the construction workers. I am worried someone is going to get hurt because of obstructed view.
A car has been parked at the yellow curb on W 6th just W of Elm since last night. This is a common occurance.
This RV that was blocking the street for 3 weeks prior to June 30 is back again parked in the same spot, which is directly by a "No Parking Sign"
There are branches of a tree that are hanging in the road. I hit the branches, and they almost broke my side mirror. I also started to swerve as a reflex, but into oncoming traffic. My wife also had the same problem on this road, also today. If this doesn’t get fixed soon, it will definitely cause wrecks. It’s on the East side of the road, going north past the bridge.
On May 23, 2021, at 5:30 am I was driving south on N Rogers to deliver my brother to Bloomington Hospital for surgery. At about 9th street (at the B line trail) I ran directly into a curb that juts out into the road. It was dark out and raining, and this road obstruction was poorly lit and not marked with a reflector ot in any other way. I ruined an almost new tire and will surely need an alignment. We walked the rest of the way to the hospital, in the dark and rain, because we couldn’t get a cab and time was short. Going back in the daylight I see that the southbound lane makes a jog to the center to accommodate this jutting out curb. Going south the right most lane becomes a parking lane, but there were no cars at all parked there so this was not apparent when approaching from the north. In the daylight this configuration is easy to see, but not in the dark and rain. I’ve enclosed a photo taken from in front of Carpenter Realty showing how dramatically this curb juts out into the road. I have other photos that I will try to send separately. (I think this report is limited to one photo. ) Two of my photos show show that the jutting out curb is blackened from tires and scared from wheel rims that preceded me into this trap. If I had a tire store I would open a branch in the big parking lot just south of Carpenter and stay open through the night. Besides reconfiguring this lane transition there are several easy solutions: - Light this curb better. - Put a reflector on it. - use a “ramp” or “transition” curb, as we see at all the new roundabouts. Thanks, Dan Mueller
This photo goes with ticket 176560. Also I see in my report that your cyber brain has changed Rogers and 9th street to Rogers and 10th. Technically there is no intersection at 9th, but that is the location of this problem.
The person at this house has had two snow plows stored on the street since winter. The one plow is fairly wide and it is a hazard with the cars parked on the other side of the road.
Tree down across road. To big to move by hand safely