Construction equipment blocking sidewalk on east side of fairview just south of 12th st. the equipment is parked in the yard of 621 w 12th. its been there several days already. photo is from yesterday but its still there this morning. thanks!
the "William Court" side of the street sign is illegible
Numerous vehicles parked daily, always 2 up to 6 or more, on the right side of East Deckard Drive constricting entryway to Eastern Heights off of East 10th/ 45. This entryway is curved and has a deep drainage ditch on the left side, which is directly opposite of these cars. A car exiting has a very fine line of trying to get over to let other entering traffic pass. There are no sidewalks throughout Eastern Heights, thus pedestrians (many children walking to school), bicyclists, etc.,are forced to walk on opposite side of parked vehicles (many of which are never moved for weeks) where there is little room due to drainage ditches, when there is barely one lane to utilize. There is also a sober living home across from these cars that does have a longer driveway for parking. But, despite being told it was highly unlikely cars would be there, they also park on the street behind these cars towards 10th street, so that they can come & go without hindrance in their driveway. It is difficult for large vehicles to enter Eastern Heights safely or residents to safely exit due to lane restriction from the constantly parked vehicles. I personally have had to back up several times a week to let the loaded school bus enter our neighborhood safely. I have spoken with the bus driver and she is very concerned about her issues of entry, especially with winter arriving. By contacting the MCCS transportation they can reach her and supply you with her camcorders. The first house is a group home & she informed me of problems with their large van blocking the entry way, that leaves her sitting on 10th street trying to enter, which then blocks the views for a safe departure by the van, making a gridlock due to heavy, as well as fast, traffic on 10th. When the group home drive is full, cars are parked in front of their property, past the continuously parked cars, to Hector and around the corner on Hector. There is ample room for the group home to establish more parking or at least a turn around for their van to not back out on Deckard, which blocks both lanes of entry leaving the loaded bus sitting on 10th street waiting to enter Eastern Heights. The bus driver seemed particularly worried about that situation, as well as the parked cars. The snow plow drivers, garbage truck drivers could reinforce the problems with all these cars being parked, although I’m sure there is less traffic during their route times. We have no neighborhood covenants about parking on street, but we have NO sidewalks for safety, and this continual parking seems to grow, especially when they have ample area to provide parking, there is no attempt to park over a bit in their yard, all tires are on the pavement. Occasionally is understandable, but daily is unattainable to the rest of the neighborhood. I would like to ask that the city explore the possibility of putting a “no parking” sign from here to the street ( back towards 10th) at the corner of Deckard and Hector, which would only affect 4 homes of which 3 are the offenders. Thank you so much and if you have further questions, please feel free to contact myself or the bus driver, as I know she is concerned as well.
Please consider adding in a light for cars turning left onto Allen. I've seen so many close calls of cars not realizing they have to wait to turn left. You also might be waiting for a long period of time to turn left as people speed down the corner of Patterson, which makes it dangerous to accurately judge whether it's safe or not to turn left. There is a turn lane here, but I think a light would be beneficial.
Sidewalk half-blocked by evergreen shrub. In E. University a house or two west of Hawthorn, north side of street
There are still no school zone signs by Tri-North Middle School. Our students cross Monroe St. and 17th Street. There is no notice to drivers to slow down. The school zone signs are still on 11th Street where they were placed for the old building.
The sidewalk on Rockport Rd south of W Pinehurst Dr (mostly, in front of 1007 W Pinehurst Rd and, even more so, 2704 Rockport Rd) has been in an almost unusable state for many months, due to the branches of trees and shrubs partially blocking the way, and fallen branches, acorns, etc covering the walkway. This spot is literally the worst section of the entire sidewalk along Rockport Rd (from its beginning at the junction with Rogers St, to its end at Tapp Rd), and now in October it is at its worst. Can the vegetation be trimmed there every now and then, and the dropped vegetation swept out of the people's way, as it is done elsewhere along this street and other streets?
New asphalt on top of construction is not level with the original B-line trail. This uneven patch-job is located at 2nd and S Morton. It causes imbalance for cyclists and pedestrians at a dangerous intersection.
I'm uncertain on exact addresses, there are multiple locations all throughout Bloomington that are overgrown blocking not just sidewalks but hiding stop signs. There needs to be a general cleanup done on all side all trees and signs to make them more visible. Remember college kids suck and like to be the frog in frogger. On sidewalks Im constantly ducking to avoid branches and I'm only 6'1" there are much taller people that have it worse
Overgrown weeds taking over sidewalk