Traffic Calming for Monte Vista?

[mjfritz]

I was almost hit by one on 10th & Palm this morning!

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ivana Olson" <hazey_marie at hotmail.com>
To: <central-city-discuss at gcna.info>
Sent: Friday, September 22, 2006 12:13 AM
Subject: Re: Traffic Calming for Monte Vista?


>I was almost hit by one of those cars on Monte Vista the other day!
>
>
>
> ----Original Message Follows----
> From: "mjfritz" <mjfritz at cox.net>
> Reply-To: central-city-discuss at gcna.info
> To: <central-city-discuss at gcna.info>
> Subject: Re: Traffic Calming for Monte Vista?
> Date: Fri, 22 Sep 2006 00:05:35 -0700
>
> Along those same lines, how about Monte Vista??
> There is a stop sign on 11th & 12th but nothing inbetween.
> Cars fly down that two block stretch like grease lightening.
> What do you think imp? Have you seen the dragsters?
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Ivana Olson" <hazey_marie at hotmail.com>
> To: <central-city-discuss at gcna.info>
> Sent: Thursday, September 21, 2006 11:51 PM
> Subject: Traffic Calming for Palm?
>
>
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > I don't know who's on Traffic and who isn't now (Maureen but not Wayne,
> is
> > that right?)  Anyhow, I wanted to ask if anything had been
> > done/discussed/thought about for the intersection of 10th street and 
> > Palm
> > Ln.
> >
> > My friend (who happens to be my sister's roomate and lives in our
> > neighborhood) was driving down Palm on her way home from work the other
> > day
> > when a woman ran the stop sign on 10th street and hit her. The accident
> > totalled my friend's car, if not both vehicles, and was severe enough to
> > send her to the hospital and put her in a lot of pain.
> >
> > Garthanne, the Emerson principal, came out to find out what was going on
> > and
> > told me that she had been trying to get at least some bump-outs and 
> > maybe
> > a
> > 4-way stop put in at that intersection.
> >
> > I hadn't heard anything about 10th and Palm in the traffic plans, but
> then
> > again I've only been to where I can hear about things for the past year
> or
> > so. It does seem like an intersection worthy of at least a four way 
> > stop.
> >
> > Has anything been discussed on this? I'm assuming that they've done all
> of
> > the traffic tests on at least Palm because they have speed humps in 
> > front
> > of
> > the school.
> >
> > The woman who hit my friend works at the hospital, but lives in
> > Scottsdale.
> > I'm assuming she was cutting through the neighborhood to avoid traffic.
> >
> >
> >
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