Question: Can you get the city of Everett to install more speed bumps in Kasch Memorial Park (in South Everett)?
When people get done playing sports, they speed out of the park and have to go around a curve to get out onto Kasch Park Road. They get going pretty fast, 30 mph to 40 mph. And there have been some collisions between them and Community Transit employees leaving the Community Transit parking lot.
Community Transit employees cannot see the sportsters leaving the park until the last second as they come out from behind trees and bushes on a sharp curve. I am a CT employee and have had several very close encounters where someone has almost hit me.
If there were perhaps two more speed bumps by the gate inside Kasch Park, this would slow traffic enough for us to have a fighting chance.
Linda Steen, Snohomish
Answer: I have contacted the Everett Parks Department and they have expressed their concern for the safety of park users at Kasch Park. City Engineering and Park staff will evaluate the problem and determine appropriate signage or access road modifications that could be effective in addressing the problem.
Ryan Sass, Everett city engineer
Question: Traffic on 52nd Street SE and Broadway seems to have increased dramatically over the past year.
A westbound car turning south onto Broadway is not able to make it through the light as the eastbound traffic from 52nd Street SE is 20 to 30 car lengths long and the light turns red after one or two westbound vehicles make it through the light.
I have seen many cars in desperation turn on a red after the car in the intersection turns. Many have been close calls. Many have been honked at or worse.
The traffic, of course, is worse during the morning and evening rush hours. I do not know the history of this intersection but do know there needs to be a solution to this problem.
I hope you can come up with a solution before a tragedy happens.
Daren Posey, Snohomish
Answer: The intersection of Broadway and 52nd Street SE has no left turn lanes, and there is no current project on the boards to construct them.
There is a proposal to reconstruct Broadway as a five-lane arterial between Beverly Boulevard and the 41st Street over-crossing structure, but this is several years away.
The problems at the intersection are primarily during the afternoon rush, and many of those complaints involve northbound traffic waiting to get through the signal. In fact, some of the comments we have received say too much time is already given to serving 52nd Street. Northbound Broadway traffic volumes are high during the afternoon because folks use it as an alternative to I-5 in an attempt to bypass congestion there.
Our accident records for the last three years show no accidents involving vehicles on or turning from 52nd Street at Broadway.
Bill Saur, Everett senior engineer
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