Please click on images to ENLARGE view of trucks turning from Martin Luther King Boulevard to South Hill Avenue on July 17, 2009. The west lane was drawn too narrow at the intersection for even small cars coming from the west to turn south easily. So the trucks are forced to swing wide into the northbound turn.
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Will they ever get it right? This whole thing of infill in our neighborhood is ridiculous! The city council has not got a clue of the day to day goings on here--how can they profess to know what our neighborhood needs. I am so sick of their pompous attitude--at least a few of them.
The guys who painted those lane markers were not city crewmen. They work for the developer's contractors, so they were making it wide for the student SUVs that soon will be turning left or going straight noerth toward the UA. The students returning from the west will turn right after they come under the railroad and enter Hill Place. Only your neighbors and people going further south will be turning right onto Hill Avenue.
If you people hadn't fought the developers on this project so vehemently, they wouldn't enjoy harassing you all so much.
What's your problem? Just enjoy the ease of turning left or right or going straight north. Don't come there on the way home. Just drive through the apartments.
What about people coming from the east on MLK who want to turn south onto Hill. There is no left-turn signal to help them. I guess they will get that done for the students coming home from Dickson Street bars at night.
Thanks for pointing this out, I thought I must just be a bad driver because I was swinging too wide in my tiny car!
I do appreciate that we have a left turn signal now coming from S Hill to MLK, but the lane situation is going to cause a wreck.
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