{"id":61,"date":"2008-05-17T03:17:54","date_gmt":"2008-05-17T03:17:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/saferskillman.org\/?p=61"},"modified":"2008-05-17T03:37:16","modified_gmt":"2008-05-17T03:37:16","slug":"follow-up-to-tuesdays-collision","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/saferskillman.org\/?p=61","title":{"rendered":"Follow-up to Tuesday’s Collision"},"content":{"rendered":"

Since my wife saw a girl get knocked down<\/a> by a slow-moving SUV at the corner of 52nd Street and Skillman Avenue on Tuesday, I’ve made it a priority to improve that particular intersection.<\/p>\n

First, an update: I talked to the girl’s father today, and he said that she was feeling much better, and able to walk okay. It sounds like she’s just bruised. That’s a relief.<\/p>\n

Fortunately, that evening was the Community Board meeting<\/a>. I rushed over there, only to discover that they weren’t going to be talking about Skillman Avenue that night after all. However, I did have a nice chat with Commissioner McCarthy for a few minutes after the meeting. I told her about the collision, and asked about the possibility of daylighting-related improvements<\/a> in the area. I don’t remember her exact answer, but I think she said it was likely.<\/p>\n

The other improvement that would really help make that intersection safer is sidewalk extensions. I asked the Commissioner about those, and she said that they would probably be not be done for a while. She confirmed that this was for budgetary reasons. I asked if they could be funded with member items, and she said, “We’ll take anybody’s money!” So we should work on finding funding for more expensive items like sidewalk extensions.<\/p>\n

Today I was talking with a neighbor who lives on 52nd Street, and she told me that on Wednesday she went home for lunch and they were installing a new school crossing sign just before the stop sign. I tried to take a picture of it, but my camera phone wanted to focus on the Honda in front of it:<\/p>\n

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It might be a coincidence (apparently the DOT has been installing them in other places<\/a>), but it might not. It won’t solve the problem by itself, but every little bit helps. Thanks, Commissioner!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Since my wife saw a girl get knocked down by a slow-moving SUV at the corner of 52nd Street and Skillman Avenue on Tuesday, I’ve made it a priority to improve that particular intersection. First, an update: I talked to the girl’s father today, and he said that she was feeling much better, and able …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,9,6,10,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crashes","category-daylighting","category-news","category-successes","category-updates"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/saferskillman.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/saferskillman.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/saferskillman.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saferskillman.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saferskillman.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=61"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/saferskillman.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/saferskillman.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saferskillman.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saferskillman.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}