This is the first year that the city is implementing traffic calming on minor streets.
With input from neighbors, it was determined that Clinton Springs near Washington Avenue and E. Mitchell were streets of concern (the city will only accept two minor streets). The City of Cincinnati ranks each submitted street based on the following criteria: crash data, speed data, equity, pedestrian generators, and bus ridership. Clinton Springs near Washington Avenue received the highest ranking of all streets scored by the city (72.00). Unfortunately, E. Mitchell’s extremely low score of 9.4 meant it did not qualify.
Please stay tuned for the next steps.
Carolyn Gillman
Law & Safety Committee Chair
NANA
Another instance of poor decision-making by our city planners. Clinton Springs at Mitchell and Clinton Springs from Mitchell to Washington is constantly under assault from speeding, poor driving, and is pedestrian crossing unfriendedly.
I don’t understand how the singular intersection at Washington could garner such a higher score, I also have yet to see anyone receive a speeding ticket along the corridor from Mitchell to Leyman on Clinton Springs so I’m not shocked that the algorithm is not being provided a complete data set required for a comprehensive answer and solution. We have had the fire hydrant at the front corner of our property on Clinton Springs replaced at least five times and had someone drive across our lawn, off our driveway wall into our driveway, and come to a crashing stop on the other side of Red Bud. The entire triangle of Clinton Springs, Mitchell, and Reading should easily qualify. However, like so many short-sighted and unbalanced programs this city and its planners half-bake, this another example not doing the right thing because it would upset or inconvenience those that are creating a need for such program in the first place. That triangle of Clinton Springs, Mitchell, and Reading won’t be touched because it is a main commuting thoroughfare. I would think NANA and the residents of North Avondale would love to have that intersection “calmer” which should feed into the – ill conceived and short-sighted – historical designated as a way to correct and improve it from its current trajectory. Instead the chaos and traffic violation will continue to be ignored instead of enforcing the law and doing the right thing.
It plagues this city.