Mayor and council:
Are you trying to make the three-way intersection at 1st Avenue and 56th Street more difficult to use that it already is? Recently, workers embedded wiring in 1st that causes cars and trucks to trigger the walk signal - since when did automobilists drive as if they were wanting to walk across a street? 56th Street in this case. Shouldn't there be a red-amber-green set of lights for traffic wishing to turn north and south to go along with the traffic-triggered walk signal?
And what about that dinky little "Do Not Block Intersection" sign suspended above the crosswalk? Could you make it just a little smaller so that no driver has a hope in hell of seeing it let alone reading it and heeding it? Oh, I know there's a larger version of this dinky sign posted on the shoulder, but when American-bound traffic - which includes tankers, trucks and semis - is backed up two lanes wide down 56th, it is often obscured or ignored by those who block this intersection out of fear that those wanting to turn from 1st might sneak into the border line-up ahead of them.
Making that suspended sign just a little smaller yet would give these louts a bigger excuse yet to block traffic from 1st.
And the NEXUS lane: Since when did the outside lane north of the intersection, down 56th, become an extension of the NEXUS lane?
I've read that there's a wiseacre in Delta's employ who doesn't understand this intersection, so he doesn't feel it needs his attention let alone proper traffic signals.
Perhaps we could suspend him beside that dinky "Do Not Block Intersection" sign until he gets it?
Greg J. Edwards cc: Delta Optimist
