Comments on: Planning: Banks, Parks and Roundabouts

By: liebezeit

liebezeit — Sun, 05 Dec 2010 21:30:04 +0000

I like the idea of putting banks on the second floor.

By: Cindy Overmyer

Cindy Overmyer — Wed, 17 Nov 2010 18:51:45 +0000

I’m very happy with the various roundabouts, particularly the one on Nixon Road – anything that gets drivers to slow down and pay attention to pedestrians at an intersection (and get off the phone) is OK by me. Driving them isn’t particularly hard, either.

By: Sabra Briere

Sabra Briere — Mon, 15 Nov 2010 19:27:06 +0000

I checked on the street lights. They are the responsibility of the Washtenaw Road Commission.

That takes another call.

By: Alan Goldsmith

Alan Goldsmith — Mon, 15 Nov 2010 12:01:15 +0000

“I contend that what this thief is stealing from the bank doesn’t even come close to what underused banks, like this one, steal from the vitality of a downtown.”

No, the real thieves in this town are appointees who, with their ‘votes’ steal lower salary range jobs from people struggling to put food on their family’s table during the worse economic crisis in nearly eighty years. We saw it almost happen with the Zingerman’s expansion and eventually it’ll happen with this parking expansion as well. I guess Mr. Westphal and I have different takes on the definition of stealing.

By: Tom Brandt

Tom Brandt — Sun, 14 Nov 2010 21:15:20 +0000

I drive through the Nixon/Huron Pkwy roundabout almost everyday. The problems Joe #3 notes do happen but the horrendous backups that used to happen at that intersection are pretty much gone. There also seem to be far few accidents there then before.

I wish they would put a roundabout at the Nixon/Dhu Varren/Green intersection, which is a complete mess.

By: Sabra Briere

Sabra Briere — Sun, 14 Nov 2010 18:00:03 +0000

The street lights are, I was told, already called in more than once.

I’ll check with City staff again.

By: Tom Whitaker

Tom Whitaker — Sun, 14 Nov 2010 17:04:05 +0000

Speaking of the traffic circles near Skyline, when are they going to start repairing the streetlights out there? Not a good mix to have students walking through shadows as they navigate through all that. Some of the light poles have been down (literally knocked down) for over two years now. On back-order perhaps?

By: Joe

Joe — Sun, 14 Nov 2010 16:13:22 +0000

I can’t begin to count how many times I’ve almost been hit by an ignorant driver pulling into the roundabout on Nixon. This happens in two different ways: the driver is looking directly at me (already in the round), watching me come directly at them, or the driver never once looks left. Of course, there’s also the almost crunching into the back of someone because they slam on the brakes approaching the roundabout despite there being not a soul in sight.

Roundabouts work where people are smart enough to realize things like corporations shouldn’t make trillions of dollars denying us medical care. Here, people are too proud of their stupidity to navigate them safely.

By: suswhit

suswhit — Sun, 14 Nov 2010 15:21:50 +0000

I was driving behind some serious laying on the horn and finger flying in the Skyline roundabouts Friday. The spot under the overpass where two lanes converge into one does not bring out the best in people.

By: Kaaren Strauch Brown

Kaaren Strauch Brown — Sun, 14 Nov 2010 14:30:57 +0000

I want to express my wholehearted support of roundabouts. Think of them as a much more efficient and user friendly, not to speak of eco-friendly since you frequently don’t have to stop, four way stops. They have been used for decades in Europe to move traffic efficiently. I think many people in AA just don’t know how to use them. The cosmos only knows how many times I come across someone frozen in their lane. A few more explanatory signs would help, particularly in the Skyline HS area where you get a concentration of new drivers.