Comments on: REBOOT: Dean Street Interchange and Viaduct http://www.gcpvd.org/2008/11/17/reboot-dean-street-interchange-and-viaduct/ Thu, 29 Jul 2010 01:59:58 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Jim http://www.gcpvd.org/2008/11/17/reboot-dean-street-interchange-and-viaduct/comment-page-1/#comment-82015 Jim Mon, 17 Nov 2008 12:31:46 +0000 http://www.gcpvd.org/?p=506#comment-82015 As someone who currently lives near the Atwells-Dean intersection and someone who would bike or walk Dean St. to get to Smith Hill/Elmhurst, I have to say the first thing that needs to be fixed on Dean St. is the Atwells-Dean intersection. Not only is it not pedestrian friendly (the crossing signals don't even work), it's dangerous for cars (the red lights have no delay, meaning the minute one turns red, the other is turning green). The size of the intersection is also ridiculous. While I can understand the need for 3 lanes of traffic coming up to Atwells, to go in one of 3 directions, there's the equivalent of 4 lanes with the way the road is setup. It should come at a nice square right angle to Atwells. In my opinion, the rest of Dean St. is less of a priority, but this section, in an extremely walkable area with tons of people out and about on a daily basis all year is a hazard. The second part the should be dealt with is making the crossings safe by the highway entrances and around the river. The road doesn't even need to be 2 lanes north of the river. There's never enough traffic there to warrant that as half the cars turn towards the mall/Foundry. As someone who currently lives near the Atwells-Dean intersection and someone who would bike or walk Dean St. to get to Smith Hill/Elmhurst, I have to say the first thing that needs to be fixed on Dean St. is the Atwells-Dean intersection. Not only is it not pedestrian friendly (the crossing signals don’t even work), it’s dangerous for cars (the red lights have no delay, meaning the minute one turns red, the other is turning green).

The size of the intersection is also ridiculous. While I can understand the need for 3 lanes of traffic coming up to Atwells, to go in one of 3 directions, there’s the equivalent of 4 lanes with the way the road is setup. It should come at a nice square right angle to Atwells.

In my opinion, the rest of Dean St. is less of a priority, but this section, in an extremely walkable area with tons of people out and about on a daily basis all year is a hazard.

The second part the should be dealt with is making the crossings safe by the highway entrances and around the river. The road doesn’t even need to be 2 lanes north of the river. There’s never enough traffic there to warrant that as half the cars turn towards the mall/Foundry.

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