10 Responses to “Residents Group Ponders One-Way Street Suggestions”
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June 22nd, 2012
I think our streets are two way and have work fine for years! You just need the little old ladies from Pasadena to stop hogging the middle line and get over!! I think we should be on the people blasting thru stop signs instead! God Bless
June 22nd, 2012
Make 'em all one way out of town.
June 22nd, 2012
Try out the one-way streets in Seal Beach in the neighborhood west of PCH. They work sort of. But, there are always people accidentally or purposely going the wrong way in that neighborhood. Same would happen in CdM.
June 22nd, 2012
I agree with Scott.....most of us who live here move over if possible and do the hand wave(thank you). One way streets will not slow down those Range Rovers with coffee drinking, cell phone talking , children in the back seat folk lol.... The non stopping at stop signs is a bigger concern to me
June 22nd, 2012
Didn't it cost $1000 to put a stop sign on the corner of Poppy and Hazel? The cost of converting to one-way hardly seems practical or worth it. The city should enforce existing laws, such as speed, people not stopping at stop signs and the distances people are parking from the curbs (i.e. 200/300 blocks of Poppy). There is plenty of room for two-way traffic on these streets if drivers cooperate. Based upon my experience with the City, they only enforce the low hanging fruit violations (street sweeping, etc.). We've had contractors blocking our alley on Orchid all summer, have called and complained and nothing happens. If the City is going to do anything, installing more of the "cross traffic does not stop" signs on the already existing stop signs at some of the more dangerous intersections (think Marigold and Seaview).
June 22nd, 2012
Leave the streets two way alone! Plenty of room for two cars, even on Poppy... Problem is people need to just stop driving in the middle of the road... Id rather see permit parking for CDM residents only on Ocean Blvd! So when I drive down from harbor view in the summer I can actually find a parking spot!
June 23rd, 2012
I have lived in CDM (flower streets hill side) for 30 + years, off and on, and have lived in other cites around the world where there are one-way streets. My observation is, back in the day, when cars were smaller and there were less people in NP and CDM things were ok with regards to the streets. I even practiced my dancing as a little girl and other neighbor's kids played foot ball or soccer right in the middle of the street. Times have changed, people have changed and cars have changed. I think one-way streets AND stop signs on every street in little ol' Corona would solve a lot of issues. And finding the money for it? Perhaps not spending it on cutting trees down, modifying street curbs and tarring street cracks can be held off?
June 23rd, 2012
Does anybody ever read what I write? I say the same thing every time this stupid idea comes up. We tried one way streets 40 years ago. IT DIDN'T WORK then and it won't work now, especially considering there are more cars and traffic now. It was a GIGANTIC pain in the a$$ for everyone. Why do we have to waste more tax dollars on a study that was done 40 years ago and that nobody wants except the NON-REPRESENTATIVE special interest "residents" group which doesn't represent most of the residents . Maybe if the City provided some semblance of traffic and parking control in CDM, especially during the summer there wouldn't be as much of a street problem. Why doesn't the Mayor address that issue and leave the direction of traffic alone.
June 24th, 2012
One ways, yeah!! Let's be honest; two cars cannot pass safely without coming to a stop and inching past one another on the flower streets. Or, with the bigger cars and suvs, it is necessary to pull into an empty curb slot (which are hard to find) and wait for the oncoming car to pass. With garages full of everthing but cars, neighbors and visitors clog the streets leaving the narrow center for navigation. One way streets, speed control measures, and stop signs that warn of 2-way stop /4 way stop are the only SAFE answer.
June 24th, 2012
Same reply as yesterday - NO on one way streets, plus the added comment that one way streets would seem to me to invite much higher speeds and much louder crashes at all the intersections that are "blinded" by cars and particularly by large SUV's parked nearest to intersections. Dave Fish, 429 Marigold, CDM, since 1980
