we the people - who have no say
i recently wrote to janice hahn about the annoying, arbitrary stop sign that was recently placed on the corner of carolina and shepard in pt. fermin. this stop sign has caused much grief to the people who live around here because of the massive sound pollution it has created (or rather, made much worse).
plus i’ve already witnessed 3 crashes in this intersection since the sign went up, & more than half the cars screech to a sliding halt because it's such a wrong place for a stop sign.
and oy vhey with the noise pollution! bikers from walker's cafe ride back and forth along shepard all day on harleys as loud as divebombers. revving out of 1st gear from that sign is enough to rattle all the windows in the house. it rattles my spinal column too, nearly giving me seizures. we can hardly have a conversation on the phone it's so loud. hell, it’s even too loud to fight over.
anyway, it’s such a major issue - and every neighbor i know is worn thin about it - so i wrote a letter to janice hahn. and believe it or not, i got an answer. the office of jancie con says there’s nothing we can do about it!
it was placed there in the first place because of ONE resident’s complaint of speeding traffic. according to caroline brady-sinco, advocate for hahn, this one person is more powerful than the 20 that want their peace back, and are pissed off enough about cutting the thing down ourselves!
"Unfortunately, once a stop sign has been justified by a traffic study, it is almost
impossible to remove it for legal and safety reasons. The stop sign was installed after one of your neighbors lodged a complaint about speeding in the area and the difficulty of turning onto
shepard from Carolina.”
i was flabbergasted and returned her note with the suggestion that i’d get a petition together to show them just how unhappy everyone here is (because of that stop sign), and that it is LESS safe around here. i demanded a new traffic study. but caroline replied that she could only forward my message to yadi hashemi at the dept of transportation here in the sp office - and that, “All of the conditions are specifically set down in the warrents as determined by the law..
basically, "you can try, but it won't do shit."
nice to know who really determines the laws in our communities. what a fucking rip off. ...it really makes me want to smoke pot and cuss.
yadi hashemi: (310) 732-4599
janice hahn:
(310) 732-4515 phone
(310) 732-4500 fax
5 Comments:
I'd reccomend putting together a petition anyways. Get some chatter going, make sure that the Councilperson's office knows not to just give in to the complaints of one person without consulting other people who might be affected. I'm getting sick of seeing all of these slow down signs, unnecessary stop signs and whatnot all over town. People need to understand that we take a certain amount of risk in exchange for convenience in our society, and that it is possible to have too much safety, just as it is to have too little.
With regards to the city, the squeaky wheel always gets the grease. I'n my experience, all it takes is one whiner to ruin the fun for dozens of happy folks. They seem to live in a bit of a cave, and can only respond to the stimulus that is put right in front of them.
They think that we actually like it when they keep putting new stop signs up. They brag about it in their mailers and campaign speeches and, more to the point, they keep fucking doing it (Crescent Street, Alma Street by the Upper Reservation, 39th and Pacific...). If nothing else, submitting a petition with lots of signatures will get it through their thick skulls that not everybody down here is thrilled with the "traffic calming" (read: road rage enhancing) measures that are put into place every time some no-life complains about having to look both ways before crossing the street.
I thought about making a bunch of stickers--hexagonal, red, with the slogan "STOP Stop Sign Madness!"--and putting them up all over town, especially on the offending stop signs. Unfortunately, I'm all talk, so it never happened.
YOU ARE RIGHT IF YOU HAVE TO USE caroline brady SHE IS USELESS!!
SO IS "janice hahn"
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