OK everyone, I admit, last week I left out part of the chorus frustrated about traffic congestion at West Tennessee Street and Capital Circle. Mark proclaimed eastbound as the trouble, Tony says westbound is the problem. Apparently traffic is snarled each morning and afternoon out there.
Q. Mary Kay, transportation safety extraordinary and chair of the Citizens Multimodal Advisory Committee who rides a scooter most days and has also personally witnessed vehicles speed through red lights comes to us with insight and ideas. Mary Kay’s Advisory Committee partnering with the Capital Region Transportation Planning Agency (CRTPA) advocates walking, bicycling and scooter riding as a goal to reduce our dependency on cars.
A. Thanks Mary Kay, for the splendid work you and your team is doing in the effort to make Tallahassee and the region safer with purposeful development planning and sensible transportation alternatives. We will continue to champion the work Mary Kay’s Citizens Committee does in future episodes of this column.
Q. Jeff of Sarasota, Florida asks Street Scene to look into, among other things, how and why obstacles such as sign posts, street lights, traffic signal poles, etc. are placed in sidewalks so someone with reduced eyesight or wheelchair depended might walk into them or, in the case of wheelchairs, find themselves blocked entirely from full access to sidewalks and some crosswalks.
A. Jeff, as a single parent of a child with disabilities, and having met and consider my close friends, people in the Tallahassee ADA Community, I pride myself in bringing attention to concerns such as yours to the ones responsible for removing and resetting sidewalk and crosswalk obstructions harmful to all pedestrians. Especially our physically disabled.
I routinely hear from decision makers holding high ranking public safety office in State and Federal Governments who tell me they “really appreciate” my column is how I know they read Street Scene. And not just government officials but elected representatives in the House and Senate.
They want to know the what and where of all public safety concern such as yours. I shall hear from the safety guys pronto after your piece in today’s newspaper. Please let me know the specifics of what you have encountered and something will be done to correct those.
I also take this opportunity to request a team be fashioned and deployed to identify and mitigate all Florida locations similarly causing harm to our most vulnerable citizens; those with disability.
Philip Stuart is a retired Florida State Trooper, Traffic Operations Projects Engineer and Forensics Expert Witness. Write to him at: crashsites@embarqmail.com.
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