Petition to Keene City Council: Urgent Safety Improvements at S. Lincoln St. & Roxbury St.
We, the undersigned residents, home owners, and frequent users of the S. Lincoln St. and Roxbury St. intersection, respectfully request urgent action to protect public safety and minimize traffic accidents at this location.
Why action is needed
- Within the last year there were multiple near-fatal collisions at this corner resulting in totaled vehicles and damage to private residences.
- Similar collisions and near-misses have occurred repeatedly over decades, demonstrating a chronic safety problem that threatens pedestrians, cyclists, drivers, and nearby homes.
- The neighborhood is united in concern and requests immediate, effective countermeasures to prevent further injury, death, and property damage.
Many options to consider (short-term and medium-term)
- Improve sign visibility and add active warning devices
- Install highly visible advance-warning signs (retroreflective, larger size) for both directions.
- Add flashing beacons (solar-powered LED flashers) activated by approaching vehicles or continuousduring high-risk hours.
- Upgrade intersection lighting
- Install brighter, full-cutoff LED street lighting directed at the crossing to improve night visibility for drivers and pedestrians.
- Add high-visibility crosswalks and pedestrian refuge
- Repaint crosswalks using high-contrast materials (continental or ladder style) and add a raised pedestrian refuge island or curb extensions to shorten crossing distance.
- Implement traffic-calming and speed-reduction measures
- Install speed feedback signs (radar speed displays) on approaches to the intersection.
- Consider physical calming such as raised crosswalks, textured pavement, or a raised intersectiontable where feasible.
- Consider geometric or signal changes (medium-term)
- Evaluate conversion to a signalized intersection or all-way stop if warranted by an engineering study.
- If full signalization is not supported, consider a hybrid solution such as a pedestrian-activatedcrossing signal (HAWK beacon) or a Rectangular Rapid Flashing Beacon (RRFB).
- Enforcement and monitoring
- Increase targeted enforcement (speed and stop compliance) for an initial period after improvements.
- Install or deploy temporary traffic cameras or data collection equipment to monitor speeds, volumes, and crash reductions
Request for City Council action
- Approve an immediate engineering study and field safety assessment of S. Lincoln St. & Roxbury St., funded and scheduled within the next 60 days. The study should include crash history review, speed andvolume counts, sight-distance measurements, and community input.
- Approve low-cost, high-impact interim measures (improved signage, flashing beacons, radar speed signs, refreshed high visibility crosswalks, and enhanced lighting) to be installed within 120 days while longer-term solutions are evaluated.
- Commit to a public timeline and follow-up briefing to the neighborhood, including metrics that will be usedto evaluate success (crash frequency/severity, speeds, driver yielding).
We believe these measures are practical, evidence-based, and achievable. The community asks the City Council to actpromptly to prevent further harm and protect residents, pedestrians, and drivers.
24 Comments
No. Lincoln has turned into a racetrack, especially in the summer, and most especially for motorcycles. Those of us on No. Lincoln know how dangerous this corner is. Fences and overgrown hedges don’t help. The biggest problem are drivers who blow through both intersections - Beaver and Roxbury. We need the city’s help!
This is my new neighborhood, and I trust my neighbors experience with this intersection. I was walking my dogs yesterday and was waiting to cross North Lincoln to South Lincoln, and a grey pickup just flew up the Roxbury St hill right by me. I understand he didn't have a stop sign, however, I thought the person trying to cross at the crosswalk would be allowed to go first.
I grew up on S Lincoln St and witnessed many accidents. It should be a 4 way stop
Too many accidents at this intersection. Visibility is the biggest issue. The fence at 294 Roxbury Street is also a huge factor in this. The fence is in disrepair, it is a danger to anybody touching it, plus it's totally blocking the view of Roxbury Street eastbound traffic. A few solutions are necessary. Advocating for a blinking RED North south and AMBER East West. Get rid of that fence. Let's not forget the single car accident by a Keene police cruiser a few years ago. He blew the stop sign
This is where my children board the school bus. I also live on Roxbury st and would like to see cars travel at a slower speed coming down the hill.
I think a four-way stop and or some speed bumps would really help on Roxbury Street.
Last September I was walking up Roxbury Street towards South Lincoln and witnessed a Maine vehicle who blew thru the stop sign on Roxbury Street (obscured by tree limbs) and plowed into a fast moving SUV coming down the hill. They both were traveling about the same rate of speed. The SUV swerved but flipped 180° in the air and landed up the hill. I had to sprint to grab my dog from being hit by a flying bumper. I cut the limb after 2 calls to the City were ignored. Enough.
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Petition to Keene City Council: Urgent Safety Improvements at S. Lincoln St. & Roxbury St.
We, the undersigned residents, home owners, and frequent users of the S. Lincoln St. and Roxbury St. intersection, respectfully request urgent action to protect public safety and minimize traffic accidents at this location.
Why action is needed
- Within the last year there were multiple near-fatal collisions at this corner resulting in totaled vehicles and damage to private residences.
- Similar collisions and near-misses have occurred repeatedly over decades, demonstrating a chronic safety problem that threatens pedestrians, cyclists, drivers, and nearby homes.
- The neighborhood is united in concern and requests immediate, effective countermeasures to prevent further injury, death, and property damage.
Many options to consider (short-term and medium-term)
- Improve sign visibility and add active warning devices
- Install highly visible advance-warning signs (retroreflective, larger size) for both directions.
- Add flashing beacons (solar-powered LED flashers) activated by approaching vehicles or continuousduring high-risk hours.
- Upgrade intersection lighting
- Install brighter, full-cutoff LED street lighting directed at the crossing to improve night visibility for drivers and pedestrians.
- Add high-visibility crosswalks and pedestrian refuge
- Repaint crosswalks using high-contrast materials (continental or ladder style) and add a raised pedestrian refuge island or curb extensions to shorten crossing distance.
- Implement traffic-calming and speed-reduction measures
- Install speed feedback signs (radar speed displays) on approaches to the intersection.
- Consider physical calming such as raised crosswalks, textured pavement, or a raised intersectiontable where feasible.
- Consider geometric or signal changes (medium-term)
- Evaluate conversion to a signalized intersection or all-way stop if warranted by an engineering study.
- If full signalization is not supported, consider a hybrid solution such as a pedestrian-activatedcrossing signal (HAWK beacon) or a Rectangular Rapid Flashing Beacon (RRFB).
- Enforcement and monitoring
- Increase targeted enforcement (speed and stop compliance) for an initial period after improvements.
- Install or deploy temporary traffic cameras or data collection equipment to monitor speeds, volumes, and crash reductions
Request for City Council action
- Approve an immediate engineering study and field safety assessment of S. Lincoln St. & Roxbury St., funded and scheduled within the next 60 days. The study should include crash history review, speed andvolume counts, sight-distance measurements, and community input.
- Approve low-cost, high-impact interim measures (improved signage, flashing beacons, radar speed signs, refreshed high visibility crosswalks, and enhanced lighting) to be installed within 120 days while longer-term solutions are evaluated.
- Commit to a public timeline and follow-up briefing to the neighborhood, including metrics that will be usedto evaluate success (crash frequency/severity, speeds, driver yielding).
We believe these measures are practical, evidence-based, and achievable. The community asks the City Council to actpromptly to prevent further harm and protect residents, pedestrians, and drivers.
24 Comments
Almost got hit here last week driving home from work. This intersection is a total nightmare at night please fix it before someone actually gets killed.
No. Lincoln has turned into a racetrack, especially in the summer, and most especially for motorcycles. Those of us on No. Lincoln know how dangerous this corner is. Fences and overgrown hedges don’t help. The biggest problem are drivers who blow through both intersections - Beaver and Roxbury. We need the city’s help!
This is my new neighborhood, and I trust my neighbors experience with this intersection. I was walking my dogs yesterday and was waiting to cross North Lincoln to South Lincoln, and a grey pickup just flew up the Roxbury St hill right by me. I understand he didn't have a stop sign, however, I thought the person trying to cross at the crosswalk would be allowed to go first.
I grew up on S Lincoln St and witnessed many accidents. It should be a 4 way stop
Too many accidents at this intersection. Visibility is the biggest issue. The fence at 294 Roxbury Street is also a huge factor in this. The fence is in disrepair, it is a danger to anybody touching it, plus it's totally blocking the view of Roxbury Street eastbound traffic. A few solutions are necessary. Advocating for a blinking RED North south and AMBER East West. Get rid of that fence. Let's not forget the single car accident by a Keene police cruiser a few years ago. He blew the stop sign
This is where my children board the school bus. I also live on Roxbury st and would like to see cars travel at a slower speed coming down the hill.
I think a four-way stop and or some speed bumps would really help on Roxbury Street.
Last September I was walking up Roxbury Street towards South Lincoln and witnessed a Maine vehicle who blew thru the stop sign on Roxbury Street (obscured by tree limbs) and plowed into a fast moving SUV coming down the hill. They both were traveling about the same rate of speed. The SUV swerved but flipped 180° in the air and landed up the hill. I had to sprint to grab my dog from being hit by a flying bumper. I cut the limb after 2 calls to the City were ignored. Enough.
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Almost got hit here last week driving home from work. This intersection is a total nightmare at night please fix it before someone actually gets killed.