posted by Mike Madison at 10:49 AM /
The September Mt. Lebanon magazine includes a brief report on one of my pet peeves: moving violations in residential neighborhoods.
Is there a quick and painless way to put a neighborhood -- better, just an intersection -- on the police radar screen? To invite the department to post three units in one place for an afternoon, and just write tickets?
I'm sure that we all have our favorite, most-abused locations. Mine are two intersections near my house: the Woodhaven/Crescent intersection, and the Inglewood/Crescent intersection. During the school year, the Summer Place/Parkview intersection (near Jefferson School) is so badly treated that local residents take to standing in their front yards and photographing cars that don't stop at the Stop signs.
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[O]fficers set up in Mission Hills -- one of the neighborhoods with the most complaints -- and for one week conducted a "zero tolerance" campaign against traffic violators.
At the end of the week, during which drivers had been stopped for any infraction ranging from speeding to not stopping fully at a stop sign, police officers had written 37 citations. Thirty-two tickets went to residents of the area.
Is there a quick and painless way to put a neighborhood -- better, just an intersection -- on the police radar screen? To invite the department to post three units in one place for an afternoon, and just write tickets?
I'm sure that we all have our favorite, most-abused locations. Mine are two intersections near my house: the Woodhaven/Crescent intersection, and the Inglewood/Crescent intersection. During the school year, the Summer Place/Parkview intersection (near Jefferson School) is so badly treated that local residents take to standing in their front yards and photographing cars that don't stop at the Stop signs.
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Call the police traffic unit. 412-343-4086.
Beadling and Seneca. A lot of drivers use Beadling as short cut from Washington Rd. to Cedar Blvd. to avoid Gilkenson Rd. A significant number of drivers on Beadling do not bother stopping at the 3-way stop, especially if they are travelling down the hill to Cedar. I was rear-ended once by someone who was surprised that I was stopping at the stop sign. I was turning left onto Seneca and I had to stop short in my turn because a driver coming the other direction ignored the stop sign on their side.
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