ToquiNotes: A Look and Discussion on Bridgeport's Traffic Trouble Spots
By Jeff Toquinto on July 26, 2014 from ToquiNotes
Does it have something to do with motorists crossing lanes trying to get to the rest area at the last moment? Are those same cars cutting over causing others to swerve and miss? Again, I have no answers, but my spider sense tingles whenever I hear fire truck and ambulance sirens going off and the words “Vehicle Accident with Injury” shows up on the Harrison County 911 log on the internet near that mile marker.
Again, I’m fully aware there are people that utilize that roadway daily with no problems. But anyone speeding on Virginia Avenue heading toward Main Street makes all the caution in the world a moot point as there’s little room for error.
Would new traffic signals help to regulate drivers hurriedly making blind exits & entrances into these places? Or maybe lanes with hundreds of feet of grooved pavement like on the emergency berm lanes to awaken sleeping drivers would require drivers to slow down to quench the annoying noise, thus reducing high speed collisions approaching these areas, just my 2 cents worth.
Posted by Bill Blackhurst
Jul. 26, 2014 at 12:05 PM EST
Yes, there was a convex mirror at the bottom of Jefferson, across the street on a pole more than once in past years. The problem was someone would eventually shoot it, shattering it, as I recall. I grew up on Blackwell Street and then came back to the hill almost 20 years ago - living on Jefferson. As a kid it was not unusual to frequently hear tires squealing and the sickening sound of glass and metal at the bottom of this hill. Someone would yell 'Oh no, another one!' and some of our parents would go running down the hill to see if they could help. It's a sound I still hear now and then and we've seen the aftermath of many accidents from our front porch. A couple of years ago it was a motorcycle - and the bike shot under the guardrail and ended up down over the hill. I NEVER go out the bottom of my street but I see it happen every day. Often it's someone who is trying to short-cut from Main Street to S. Virginia and turns down Jefferson instead of continuing to Blackwell.
Posted by Dede Rader Kelly
Jul. 26, 2014 at 10:34 AM EST
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