There was a Wicomico County Traffic Safety Meeting today. During this meeting they were discussing ongoing and future issues relating to traffic and DWI issues.
One of the concerns brought up was the amount of collisions that the Maryland State Police are investigating at the intersection of South Division Street and Bateman Street as a result of the pedestrian cross walk being put in.
Also at these meetings are the County Roads Supervisor, PRMC Staff, SPD Brass, Sheriff's Brass and WICO BOE Brass. I was informed by the County Roads Superintendent that South Division is a County road and Salisbury University has approached them about placing a cross walk there.
SU was informed that the intersection was not appropriate nor safe for a cross walk, so they were shut down. However, apparently SU did not take no for an answer and pulled some strings at Salisbury Public Works and got a cross walk ILLEGALLY placed on a county road.
I know what your thinking, how can the Salisbury Public Works place their cross walk on a county road without permission? The County Road Supervisor stated they just did it even after they were informed that the County did not approve the intersection for a cross walk.
He did state that they told SU that one could be placed farther south if SU moved there fence line and cut down the trees to make the intersection more visible. Apparently SU did not want to and went behind the County Roads back and got the City to put one in.
Everyone at this meeting was flabbergasted and some were laughing (except for the Salisbury Police Brass).
Time to put in a little OVER TIME tonight Mayor because you guys have some explaining to do!
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Let's see, 13 years ago, they put in a underpass for students that go to and from Power Professional Building and the Football Field. That thing is hardly ever used. Now they have an illegally placed crosswalk that is causing accidents. I hope that the insurance companies that had to pay out on claims should come back and get their money from SU.
ReplyDeleteBOY ARE YOU WRONG! The underground crosswalk is used over 3000 times a day at its peak. The Intersection in question is within the cities rights to put up a crosswalk as one side of the intersection IS CITY LIMITS!
ReplyDeleteGet your facts straight. And stop posting BS lies. This web site is nothing more than a imitation of the DTs grapevine controlled by a dictator and only pushes the agenda it sees fit.
Isn't that crosswalk at Bateman St. & S. Div. St. -- but there will be one nearer to Milford Street (and many more accidents) when they do that student housing at the Hearne Farm.
ReplyDeleteShe'll blame it on John Jacobs......right?
ReplyDeleteYou left this out:
ReplyDeleteBitch of the hybrid strain of Yorkies developed by Mr. & Ms. Albero, who have just been banished to Mars by Czarinna Casey Tilghman, eliminate last remaining pit bull in a 10 round-must event!
ROTFLMAO....
The powers at SU do what ever they want-heck the president gets away with slamming Mexicans and animal porno, ya think a little illegal crosswalk will deter the big girl? And illegal student rentals and parking-shoot she knows ole Barrie and company will take care of that!!
ReplyDeleteJoe, some of this information is correct but some of it is not. The superintendant of roads was not at the meeting. The removal of the trees and the fence was not a condition of installing the crosswalk at any location, but rather a strong suggestion to aide in the visibility of the intersection. The intersection in question is Bateman/Onley on S. Division not Milford street. The university was never told they could have a crosswalk at another location on the road. It is also possible the city did not know that the county turned down the request of the University although there should be a better dialogue between the two jurisdictions when dealing with an area that falls so close to jursdictional boundaries.
ReplyDeleteKeep probing this one. This is really troubling.
ReplyDeleteOdd, since the county zoning map places that intersection in the city of salisbury.....
ReplyDeletehttp://www.wicomicocounty.org/pnz/wicomico%20county%20zoning%20map.pdf
I'll bet you if I sat in either Hardee's Parking Lot or Pat's Parking lot and counted, I wouldn't get more than a hundred or so people. You tell me the "busiest" day for that thing, and I will go out and count people for 2 hours.
ReplyDeleteThe only students I usually see using the tunnell are the atheletes going to or from the fileds. I would like to know when there have ever been 3000 people using that tunnel in any given day. Sounds like Fuzzy Barrie math. By the way, WHERE IS THE AUDIT??
ReplyDeleteApparently a typo "Milford Batemen". The crosswalk is between the Bateman Street and Onley Road. A supervisor from County Roads was there. This is all semantics, regardless what side of the road the cities jurisdiction boarders that part of South Division Street is COUNTY PROPERTY and what right does the City have to place a traffic control device on COUNTY PROPERTY. NONE
ReplyDeleteI've heard that they City and County have asked SU to fund an upgrade (widening and traffic light) at that intersection but that has been rejected by the State people.
ReplyDeleteThanks for having my six, Anonymous.
ReplyDeleteAnonymous said...
The only students I usually see using the tunnell are the atheletes going to or from the fileds. I would like to know when there have ever been 3000 people using that tunnel in any given day. Sounds like Fuzzy Barrie math. By the way, WHERE IS THE AUDIT??
With most of the parking spots being at the Dresser building now, the tunnel is used quite a bit. As a recent grad I used it all the time when I was walking from University Park. Many others use it when walking from University Village and the Zoo (don't remember the actual name of the town homes). Last year one of my fellow classmates did a research project, which involved him taking tallies on the number of people that walked on the walkway in front of Henson and the number of people walking in the tunnel. I don't remember the numbers, but they were fairly high for the tunnel. He really wasn't interested about how heavy the foot traffic was in these areas, that data was just a by-product of the study.
ReplyDeleteI'm sorry there are some that would rather see students and drivers at risk. Being a native to the Shore, if I remember correctly the tunnel was built because of the number of incidents at this intersection.
Anonymous, I never said I wanted to see people get hurt. My point was this, the tunnel was built for the sports teams because they had to lug all their equipment from the gym to the fields. Okay, people understood that. It was dangerous. BUT you still see people running across the street from the college and that is a huge risk as well. Additionally, if you are trying to pull out of Hardee's parking lot onto Bateman street, it is damn near impossible to see around the ramp of the tunnel. My idea was that they should have built an OVERPASS over 13, eqipped with an elevator for the handicapped and for the teams lugging their equipment. They have them all over the DC area and they seem to work well. Also, the fact that you can make them transparent would have made the need for cameras almost nonessential.
ReplyDeleteAs far as the intersection in question is concerned, I still want to see people be safe. I think that what needs to be done is to have a light at the T of Bateman and S. Division. You could also have a crossing light for pedestrians. Also in regards to Milford and S. Division, maybe they need a pedestrian crossing light instead of just a crosswalk. That would force people to stop and remain stopped. Hell, it seems to work downtown.
Anonymous said...
I'm sorry there are some that would rather see students and drivers at risk. Being a native to the Shore, if I remember correctly the tunnel was built because of the number of incidents at this intersection.