Dear Joy and HP friends and neighbors,
I too am very unhappy with the careless and dangerous ways I see people in this neighborhood drive day in and day out. It seems to be getting worse. Pittsburgh drivers we always found in the past to be kind and much more stead than the drivers in the Northwest where we recently lived. Nowadays I feel that I am back there. Speeding, running red lights is a common occurrence, going through stop signs, following too close as a big rude black Cadillar SUV driver did to me yesterday and much more. Recently there were two fender
benders on North Highland. Some of this goes for the cyclists as well who NEVER stop at stop signs and red lights even weaving through stopped traffic. Recently our daughter was t-boned at the corner of N. Euclid and Stanton by a woman who had a dog on her lap and drove through a stop sign putting our daughter in the hospital for 5 days. Two weeks ago my husband was stopped at the light on Negley by the old Jewish temple and was hit in the back by a driver who was "inattentive" my guess probably texting etc... By his own admission he was going about 30 miles an hour.... So hard was the shock that both cars were totalled!!!! fortunately my husband braced himself and was unhurt.
The speed limit in our neighborhood is 25 MILES AN HOUR, LIGHT TURNING YELLOW DOES NOT MEAN SPEED UP, STOP SIGNS AND RED LIGHT MEANS STOP, FOR EVERYONE!!!
Please drive as if a life depended on it, it could even be yours OR A MEMBER OF YOUR FAMILY.
A very concerned neighbor.
Elisabeth