All tagged Traffic Safety
Oh, thank you so much, Swarthmore Borough, for the new Big Yellow Signs at the intersection of Harvard Avenue and Chester Road, alerting drivers that there are actually people hoping to cross the street at this location! Drivers come to that intersection with NO intention of slowing down at all. I have been playing chicken with them for years, feeling like they were enraged by my need to cross the street.
In all the discussion about accidents at the Yale/Cornell intersection, and speeding on Yale in general, I don’t recall any remarks about the lack of speed limit signs on Yale between Chester Road and for about a quarter mile east on Yale. How about two more, oversized, on each side of the street?
Thank you to our Cornell Avenue neighbor who was seen trimming their hedge to improve sightlines at the dangerous, accident-heavy corner of Cornell and Yale.
I attended a lively and informative meeting of Swarthmore Borough’s Safety Committee. The principal agenda item was about potential four-way stop signage at the intersection of Cornell and Yale avenues, to reduce collisions. At the same time, the presence of stop signs on Yale at Kenyon Avenue was noted. It’s apparent that those serve only as a traffic-calming measure, principally for eastbound traffic on Yale Avenue.
