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Comments (87)
Traffic trying to sneak onto Canal from side streets find they cannot actually make the turn because the box is always blocked and eventually get seriously aggressive to shove their way in. Pedestrians never know when a driver is going to suddenly do something aggressive.
If you are crossing to the Greenway on a bike you get the same signal to go straight as cars turning across you to go north on WSH. You have to position yourself way out at the front edge of the crosswalk to keep from getting right hooked, but it's a vulnerable place to stand while waiting for the light and could block pedestrians who have the light.
The bridge is actually problematic. Pedestrians will always prefer to cross at street level. The bridge ads extra effort into getting around on foot. But also it creates bad sight lines for traffic coming into that intersection and enforces driver perception that this road is not pedestrian space.
The right hand turn lane off WSH is a nightmare for southbound cyclists in the Greenway. Scary conflict because they get the light at the same time.
Drivers on Varick are beyond aggressive, blocking the box and crosswalk even when the crossing guards are out. The pm honking starts at 3:30pm and can be heard in side offices and homes all around the neighborhood. Weaving through cars on the crosswalks is especially bad because the second an inch appears in front of them they might lurch forward. I feel especially bad for the elderly, people with strollers, or those in wheelchairs. Fights between drivers or drivers and pedestrians are common.
The bike lane gap between 7th Ave and Grand on Varick needs to be filled to provide access to the existing eastbound route on Grand.
Improvements were made in recent years that made it safer and more pleasant to cross on foot, but pedestrians must use multiple light signals to get across Canal from Hudson tempting people to walk against the light which is bad because it can be difficult to know where traffic will be coming from at any given moment.
There's a pedestrian desire line here but no way to cross. But the ends of the block are open and pedestrians might find themselves halfway in before realizing they cannot cross.
Cyclists leaving the Greenway have no good safe route along Canal or even to get head north or east above Canal
There's a space to exit the Greenway at Canal but no crosswalk.
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