HomeMy WebLinkAbout7/19/2022 Item 6i, Feher
Delgado, Adriana
Malcolm Eggs <olasfinas@icloud.com>
Sent:Thursday, July
To:E-mail Council Website
Subject:Johnson & Sydney Crosswalk Update
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I am happy to see your plan will go first into a "trial phase" to see if it will work. As a long-time resident of this
neighborhood who will be influenced daily by this plan, I have a couple comments:
1. On the plan reducing accidents - Johnson/Sydney is not an accident-prone area. It is an area where cars drive over the
speed limit - a different problem. Not only that, but it seems natural to me that putting up barriers and narrowing lanes
will cause accidents by speeding drivers. Furthermore, there is often slowing currently on Johnson for cars turning left or
right onto Sydney (a cause of occasional road rage). Narrowing Johnson to one lane will create a bottleneck: more traffic
and slowing (and angry drivers and rear-enders). With the proposed plan, everyone will have to hit the brakes when
someone is turning right. These are common sense foreseeable problems.
2. This all sounds like a lot of money to fix problems that don't really exist. There are hardly any pedestrians at Johnson
and Sydney - not enough to merit spending all this money on construction and restructuring of the roadway and
confusing drivers. Instead, I would propose adding a simple pedestrian traffic light like the one on Foothill and Ferrini.
That way car traffic can flow naturally and stop only when needed. And then with the extra money you can repair the
asphalt on Johnson, which has had annoying potholes since it was "fixed" a few years ago.
Thank you for your attention,
Arnold Feher
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