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Drivers use Sunnyside to cut between Ashland and Clark and frequently speed through the stop signs at Greenview.
This will cut down on A LOT of this from the west, and make it less useful for people coming from the east.
Also crossing Ashland here always felt like a gamble. The island fixes that.
Former 47th Ward COS Josh Mark told me that he sent an email to CDOT trying to follow up on this on his very last day working for the office, I don’t know if it was that or his successor that got this done, or a mixup at CDOT, but I’m happy for it.
The conflict on that one was that the community was asking for planted bumpouts to help deal with the flooding at Sunnyside and Greenview and CDOT was saying they don’t do them anymore. The Alder’s team was asking for an exception due to strong community support.
We’ll see what happens.
We were also told years ago that bumpouts at Sunnyside and Greenview were going to happen to help deal with the speeders from the east. It’s been years since we’ve gotten an update, but I hope and believe that may still be coming.
Anyway, these are reasons why I strongly advocate on your local community associations. Not only can you stop it from becoming a force for an NIMBYism, you can work with those same people to get real shit done that you wouldn’t otherwise.
But sure enough there it is as seen from the southeast corner of Sunnyside and Ashland. New bumpouts, a traffic diverter, and I think they’re doing raised crosswalks across Sunnyside too? This is so awesome. Gonna save untold lives.
…her argument was that they changed the traffic pattern in such a way that added more automobile weight to the drains at the corners and they were collapsing in. You can see this did indeed happen at Berteau & Greenview.
So planted bump outs were requested instead and she offered to maintain them.
Originally the ask was for for a traffic circle like Greenview has at a couple of blocks between Irving and Montrose, but one neighbor who maintains the pollinator gardens at the corner there advocated against it…
Y’all they’re installing a traffic diverter and pedestrian refuge island at Ashland and Sunnyside to prevent cars from illegally crossing Ashland, making illegal southbound left turns. I rallied my neighborhood group to support this and last I heard from the Alder’s office CDOT wasn’t moving on it…
