I sat at the top of East Ridgewood Avenue this beautiful Sunday morning enjoying some time on a bench with my granddaughter, drinking iced coffee and a blueberry coolatta. She noticed that cars were not stopping at the stop sign heading south on Broad Street at the Ridgewood Avenue “T” by the train station parking lot. She is 6 years old and was disturbed by this. So we counted 40 cars passing through. Out of 40 cars, 28 of them rolled through the stop sign without stopping. Only 12 actually stopped. And all the while people were crossing on foot, pushing strollers, on bicycles, etc. So dangerous. And mind you, this was on a Sunday morning from about 9:00 – 9:15. What must this be like on a busy weekday when the trains are coming and going, when commuters are rushing about, when people are trying to get their kids to school, and so on. I suggested that we tell a police officer but she was afraid to get the police in trouble for not doing their job of ticketing these drivers.
Police are not anywhere but in their vehicles.no foot patrol presence to make common sense observations incl cross walk violations and jaywalking on dead mans curve across from Carlos bakery
Wait until that bank goes in next to MacMurphy’s.
this is common at most stop signs in Ridgewood. The police do sit in the cul-de-sac by the train station looking for those who don’t stop at Ridgewood ave and Broad st. and I have seen them pull violators over, but more enforcement is needed.
Most of the time pedestrians are walking with their heads down, reading their devices….very hard for drivers to determine what a ped will do…
This is an on going problem for years, it is a lack of enforcement by our police that are rarely seen doing enforcement in trouble spots in the village.
@1.31pm: No. That’s the image you have in your mind of pedestrians. Drivers don’t have to wonder what pedestrians will do. They simply have to stop at stop signs, and stop allow any pedestrian to cross a crosswalk if the pedestrian is in it, or is waiting to cross. It really is that simple.
I have been there on one of those benches when a cop car was in the train parking lot, engine running, doing god-knows-what while cars were rolling right through that stop sign, totally ignoring these reckless drivers.
Imagine if that freakin’ garage ever goes in and you add a couple of hundred more cars to the mix, out-of-towners who are just zipping through on their way to and from work. Insanity.