[Summit] Illegal parking at 4th and Hope St. and the need for stop signs

[pjaceto at cox.net]

    I've lost track of the number of times I've almost been hit crossing Hope at Fourth to go to the CVS. 
  And don't forget about the cars that park on the sidewalk in front of Seven Stars (partly in the lot and partly on the sidewalk). The bakery should move those two planters off of the sidewalk and onto the edge of their parking lot. That would prevent people from  parking half in and half out. it would also allow pedestrians to actually walk on the sidewalk.

Paul

---- Karlo Berger <karloberger at yahoo.com> wrote: 
> I live on Fourth Street just east of Hope, and find that turning left  from Fourth Street (northwards) onto Hope is also daunting and  hazardous due to additional parked cars around the ballet and the  chocolate shop, so much so that we try to avoid driving that way and  head to Hope via Lorimer and Rochambeau instead.  
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>   Such a hazardous street corner at a place where so many kids cross the  streets is an accident waiting to happen.  I think that Hope and  Fourth should have four-way stop signs.  Enforced ticketing is not  going to fully address the safety issue, not when there are so many  people quickly stopping their cars to drop the kids off at ballet or  grab a coffee at Seven Stars.  Not to mention the cars picking up  speed there as they head south on Hope.
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>   Karlo Berger
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