Why The Hell Should They Bother?

This afternoon at about 12:30 there was yet another two vehicle accident at the intersection of 4th & Columbia.  The new NO TURN ON RED sign for 4th Street traffic seems to be working, but the running of red lights is still a problem, and that seems to be the cause of today's accident.  Nobody was injured or killed. 

The driver of the car that entered the intersection from 4th and was hit told me that she had the green light.  The other driver, who entered the intersection headed east on Columbia, told me that "we both had the green."  Hmmm....

Any busy intersection (at the bottom of a hill and full of enormous trucks, no less) that doesn't have one drop of paint anywhere on the pavement is a sign that someone at City Hall is not paying attention or taking pedestrian, motorist, and bicyclist's safety seriously.  A busy intersection where accidents are common without paint on the pavement (such as 4th & Columbia), especially in the form of stop lines, is obviously being ignored by the powers that be in Hudson.  It is so shameful and discouraging!  It's like they refuse to make the effort to make our streets safer.

Several thousands of automobiles a day and not a drop 
of paint anywhere. 1 traffic light is sufficient!

What the hell is it going to take for City Hall to wake up to the realities of our dangerous streets and intersections and get them improved?  Will it be a cop car T-boned because someone ran a red light that they either didn't see or just decided to ignore?  Oh, wait, that exact thing happened at 6th & Columbia almost 5 years ago to officer Jake Hoffman!  Then it happened there again more recently to a city fire vehicle.  And guess what?  There have NEVER been any stop lines at that intersection, and HPD says there haven't been enough accidents there to do anything different.  White paint?  Stop lines or crosswalks along the truck route?  "Sorry," say Robert Perry and HPD Commissioner and traffic safety guru Shane Bower, "why the hell would we bother?"