MM received the following comments about the new straight-ahead arrow on the corner of Wabash and the Boulevard:
Saw it last Saturday, the 18th, when someone waited at the red light in the lane at the limit line. No one was approaching from the South so I honked to let them know it’s legal to make a right turn on a red in California, after coming to a complete stop. They flipped me off and went straight when the light turned green. That’s when I noticed the new straight arrow added to the turn arrow. Not calming if you are trying to go North on Wabash and guy in front is going straight. Oh well, I’ll get used to it.
– Kelly Kieswetter
A few weeks back I was rolling westbound on Mentone Blvd aka SR-38 in my M-1 Tank and General Public observed that CalTrans had added the through arrow. Don’t know if it calmed me down any though, just got me more riled-up at those State guys anyway… they promised us that CalTrans would put in the street lights on the Blvd between Wabash and Crafton and that was over five years ago!
– General Public
Lol. I guess I didn’t make myself clear: the LACK of straight-ahead arrow on the right was for traffic calming but all it did was back up the traffic. Can I suggest that more vehicles go straight than right at the corner? Anyway, it should relieve some of the congestion on the Boulevard.
The problem with a light between Crafton and Wabash – and I would also like to see a pedestrian-generated one in front of the Post Office for pedestrians’ convenience as well as getting REV students to cross in the crosswalk – is that they can legally go for a mile without a light. We understand that the distance between Crafton and Wabash is 1.3 miles. So, if the Post Office is .3 miles from Wabash, then “we’re in business.” Gabe DeLaRosa and I talked about that issue the other day and we’re going to keep bugging CalTrans until they do what we want. Even little lights on the asphalt would be better than what we have now!