NOACA will present its final recommendations for traffic calming on Franklin Blvd. at a public meeting next Tuesday, Nov. 13, from 5:30 to 7 p.m. at the Bethany Presbyterian Church (6415 West Clinton Ave.)
This follows the traffic calming experiment conducted earlier this summer in late July and early August that inspired oh so many mature and rational conversations on various neighborhood Facebook watch pages.
The diverter tactic deployed, NOACA noted, is just one of the options to increase safety for pedestrians and bicyclists on the street.
This article appears in Nov 7-13, 2018.
How about paving all of the potholes all over the city streets instead??? Or, will Taxin Jackson need yet another tax increase from those that actually have to work for a living in this city in order to provide basic city services such as street maintenance? -Pathetic!
It’s pathetic alright, but not because of potholes.
For years the residents of Franklin Ave who pay taxes to this city have wanted to impose a 25 MPH limit on this very narrow public ROW for their safety. All they have received instead is engineering gobbeldygook from so-called engineers who can’t grasp the physics of speed and mass. Abetted no doubt by a Koch addicted state legislature that is determined to increase car slavery for all.
Franklin Boulevard is just that, a Boulevard and the speed limit is 35mph. I use Franklin Blvd daily and I rarely see bicycles or pedestrians. What I did see is the mess made with having to use the side streets because a few bicyclists use Franklin. Is it not enough that taxpayers have spent a lot of money to make the streets “share the road”? There are children living on the side streets, there are cars parked along both sides and they are simply not wide enough to maintain good traffic flow. This is a waste of time, money and will lead to even more bad side streets that don’t get fixed or plowed. I find it stupid that we have to continue to accommodate these bicycle groups to this extent.
Please…..why are the pedestrians walking in the street? There are SIDEWALKS on Franklin Blvd, ya know. Bad excuse!!! How many bicycles compared to automobiles use Franklin Blvd or any street in main street? Another bad excuse!! Why doesn’t the City just completely close Franklin Blvd to accommodate the pedestrians that don’t use sidewalks and the cyclists who only use Franklin in fair weather??? I really don’t see many cyclists or pedestrians in the winter. Only problem is….folks……you give an inch and they will take a mile…..and Franklin won’t be the only street……..next they will take the Shoreway etc.
Got to admit that this is cowtown to the few at the expense of the many.
Got to admit this is kowtowing to an entitled vocal few, at the expense of the many highway users.
Franklin is a Boulevard, and those who live there, knew what they were getting on a main traffic artery when they moved there, so now they want US all to pay for their bad choices.
I’ve been shuttling seniors from public housing on West 25th down Franklin to the Rite Aid on West 65th to get their Meds for more than a decade, the traffic/speed now is no worse than it was 10-years ago.
Now that entitled Millennials and Gen X’rs have pushed the working-class residents out of the neighborhood, Franklin has become a hip address for real estate developers who want things their way, Ohio traffic laws be damned.
Since when do automobiles drive on pedestrian sidewalks????? There are only 2 small stores (businesses) from W45th to W85th and Franklin. There is a school with 20MPH signs which drivers do comply to. These residents of Franklin Blvd knew it was and is a 35MPH boulevard when they chose to move there. And last but not least…….Detroit Ave and Madison Ave both have bike lanes……why not use them for bicycles….why ruin a perfectly good Boulevard to accommodate the few and inconvenience the many?
Franklin Blvd is a narrow city street despite its 19th century name.
All streets in the city should be 25 MPH enforced.
Engineering expenses solved! Use the 10 bills on dollar freeway I paid for if you want to ‘go fast.’
That would be “10 billion dollar freeway”
I drive daily down the Carnegie and/or Kinsman super highways and for experiment, I adjust from 35 to 25 to measure the time differential in teaching my destination.
Result? 2-3 minutes over 10 miles.
Get on your 10 billion dollar freeway, violent people.
Those entitled Millennials and Gen X’rs have pushed the working-class residents out of the neighborhood, and their snowflake offspring might get clocked, or so they fear, so they flexed their political muscle and exercised some clout, and probably did this the Chicago way…with some images of dead presidents sent to the right people. Speaking of which, I have driven Franklin at all hours of the day and night, on all days of the week, and I rtarely see any bikes, let alone any PEOPLE. it’s like the zombie apocalypse on Frankin, nary a living soul in sight for blocks and blocks. WTF is all the hoo-ha?
Franklin has indeed become a hip address for these gentrifying brats, who want to live in the city to avoid long commutes, but worry about their own brats like the helicopter parents they are, because their own parents raised them the same way. If they want “traffic-calming” and are so paranoid about keeping their kids “safe”, they need to go buy a McMansion in Westlake or Strongsville. You want to live in Cleveland, dammit, grow a pair and toughen up! And do the same with your kids. You want city living and suburban amenities at the expense of those of us who know what “city” means? Kiss mine!
I want it all…the 1890s Victorian gem…on a calm, serene cul-de-sac. Where my kids can bike and play in the street. because THAT is what I had growing up. I’m an affluent Millennial, and I’m ENTITLED, dammit.
I don’t own a gas-guzzler, not even a cool sports car. Why should I? That’s what Uber is for! So go drive your smog-polluting monster somewhere else! Not in my backyard! Or past my tree lawn, either!
Franklin Boulevard is not a cul-de-sac. Franklin has been a 35 MPH BOULEVARD a lot longer than the Millennials have been alive. If you don’t like Franklin being a boulevard, move. There are plenty of 25 MPH streets calm, serene streets in the burbs.
Um…like…it looks like…um…sarcastic humor…yeah…that’s what it is…
Somebody wants a big old city house on a suburban street. It’s a joke!
When they put up those roadblocks…no more 35 MPH and no more scenic shortcut.
Thanks, clowns…