Hey State DOT- Stop Stalling, Remove Dangerous Stop Signs!

(File under T.A.'s broken record department.)

The State DOT needs to remove the stop signs on the Hudson River Greenway and replace them with "bowling pin" arrays of safety cones or plastic bollards at approaches to street intersections. Since July 2001, T.A. has been calling on the SDOT to remove the stop signs. They violate Federal sign design and placement regulations and are, no doubt, illegal. Besides, stop signs are poor substitutes for intersection designs that slow motor vehicles that drive across the path and that give non-motorized path traffic the right-of-way. Already, motorists crossing the greenway have seriously injured cyclists and pedestrians on the path. It is only a matter of time before a motorist driving across the greenway kills a path user. The State DOT must redesign the intersections to slow motor vehicles crossing the greenway and give path users the right-of-way rather than relying upon the legally dubious and ineffective stop signs.

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