Northeast 58th Avenue effectively dead-ends in a church parking lot at Northeast 78th Street. There are four traffic and two turn lanes there. It’s controlled by traffic lights. On the other hand, the intersection at 58th Avenue and 63rd Street has six traffic lanes, four left-turn lanes and two right-turn spaces. This intersection is controlled by two stop signs on 58th.
There’s been significant residential growth around the intersection at 58th and 63rd. It surprises me that local planners haven’t required developers to pony up funds to install more comprehensive traffic controls. The signed speed limit on 63rd Avenue is 40 mph. This is often exceeded by 10 to 15 mph. Sightlines were impaired before development, they’re even worse now. People have died here for lack of adequate traffic controls and more surely will.
Since planners, in their wisdom, have foregone requiring those who created the problem to pay to fix it, I guess it’s going to be up to me and you through our tax dollars. That or let the bodies pile up.
