Petition to Keene City Council: Urgent Safety Improvements at S. Lincoln St. & Roxbury St.
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Matthew Lawlor
9 days ago
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.
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Julia Brock
9 days ago
I think a four-way stop and or some speed bumps would really help on Roxbury Street.
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Roe-Ann Tasoulas
24 days ago
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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Kellee O'Shea
28 days ago
My sons walk to school and work from our home on N Lincoln St. I often worry about their safety with the amount of cars that drive N and S Lincoln at high speeds. A four way stop or a light could help this stretch not be treated as a highway.
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Heather Gilligan
28 days ago
At minimum, the intersection should be a 4-way stop, as was recently done on Water Street.
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Cate Giovannani
1 month ago
I love in the middle of N Lincoln between beaver and S Lincoln. Drivers use this small stretch of road as a drag strip! I have small children who like to play outside- I am nervous for their safety even when they are on a raised side walk.
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Supporter
1 month ago
I walk across Roxbury Street every morning, and I have to listen to be sure no vehicles are barreling down the hill on Roxbury before crossing. I saw the pickup truck that drove through the formerly beautiful hedge and into the yard of the house on the corner. That hedge could have been me! Please help make this dangerous intersection safer.!
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Jacob Lamothe
1 month ago
I live by this intersection and see accidents here all the time.
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William J. Cunningham
1 month ago
This is a clearly dangerous intersection that requires a FOUR WAY STOP. There is a school bus stop right across the street and I can't tell you how many times I've seen cars drive 30+ mph down Roxbury, ignoring the crosswalk while I try to cross with kids. Not to mention numerous near-accidents. Do something NOW before something worse happens.
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Gary Adeyemi
1 month ago
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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.
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Abby Mather
1 month ago
Too many needless car crashes. There needs to be more and better signage to warn drivers unfamiliar with the intersection to stop and look.
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Ken Kost
1 month ago
Cars speed on many residential streets in Keene. This is one example. This intersection needs attention. Let’s fix this one and then look at other unsafe streets and intersections.
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Hannah Pickard
1 month ago
This needs a 4 way stop, you have to inch out to see down Roxbury street and in that time cars come flying up and down. I’ve witnessed too many accidents and near accidents here, please help keep us safe.
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Annelies Spykman
1 month ago
I drive through this intersection up and down Roxbury St multiple times a day, and every single time I feel hypervigilant as I cross through, waiting for the car that does not stop coming through S Lincoln or N. Lincoln Sts. It has happened so many times that I have been coming through and a car rolls straight through into Roxbury St. I know pedestrians who have been hit crossing through that intersection. So many kids coming and going, and people fly through at such reckless speeds.
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Heather Servant
1 month ago
Years ago I petitioned the city to help us with the speeding on Eastern Ave. Best they could do was change the speed limit to 25mph and of course no one follows that either.
This intersection is dangerous. It needs to be a 4 way stop and there needs to be more enforcement of speed limits on these secondary roads. Folks are using the Eastern Ave-South Lincoln-North Lincoln streets as a racetrack to avoid Main St and it’s going to have tragic consequences.
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Sharon Gallagher
1 month ago
Too much speed on this road and Water Street which lead to accidents and near miss accidents. Previous "traffic calming" ideas have been ineffective.
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Jnatjan Mattoon
1 month ago
Needs to be a 4 way stop agreed!
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Susan Weil-Hackett
1 month ago
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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!
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Ann Charbonneau
1 month ago
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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.
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Supporter
1 month ago
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I grew up on S Lincoln St and witnessed many accidents. It should be a 4 way stop
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.
My sons walk to school and work from our home on N Lincoln St. I often worry about their safety with the amount of cars that drive N and S Lincoln at high speeds. A four way stop or a light could help this stretch not be treated as a highway.
At minimum, the intersection should be a 4-way stop, as was recently done on Water Street.
I love in the middle of N Lincoln between beaver and S Lincoln. Drivers use this small stretch of road as a drag strip! I have small children who like to play outside- I am nervous for their safety even when they are on a raised side walk.
I walk across Roxbury Street every morning, and I have to listen to be sure no vehicles are barreling down the hill on Roxbury before crossing. I saw the pickup truck that drove through the formerly beautiful hedge and into the yard of the house on the corner. That hedge could have been me! Please help make this dangerous intersection safer.!
I live by this intersection and see accidents here all the time.
This is a clearly dangerous intersection that requires a FOUR WAY STOP. There is a school bus stop right across the street and I can't tell you how many times I've seen cars drive 30+ mph down Roxbury, ignoring the crosswalk while I try to cross with kids. Not to mention numerous near-accidents. Do something NOW before something worse happens.
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.
Too many needless car crashes. There needs to be more and better signage to warn drivers unfamiliar with the intersection to stop and look.
Cars speed on many residential streets in Keene. This is one example. This intersection needs attention. Let’s fix this one and then look at other unsafe streets and intersections.
This needs a 4 way stop, you have to inch out to see down Roxbury street and in that time cars come flying up and down. I’ve witnessed too many accidents and near accidents here, please help keep us safe.
I drive through this intersection up and down Roxbury St multiple times a day, and every single time I feel hypervigilant as I cross through, waiting for the car that does not stop coming through S Lincoln or N. Lincoln Sts. It has happened so many times that I have been coming through and a car rolls straight through into Roxbury St. I know pedestrians who have been hit crossing through that intersection. So many kids coming and going, and people fly through at such reckless speeds.
Years ago I petitioned the city to help us with the speeding on Eastern Ave. Best they could do was change the speed limit to 25mph and of course no one follows that either. This intersection is dangerous. It needs to be a 4 way stop and there needs to be more enforcement of speed limits on these secondary roads. Folks are using the Eastern Ave-South Lincoln-North Lincoln streets as a racetrack to avoid Main St and it’s going to have tragic consequences.
Too much speed on this road and Water Street which lead to accidents and near miss accidents. Previous "traffic calming" ideas have been ineffective.
Needs to be a 4 way stop agreed!
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