Have A Safe and Sane 2026, Y'all!

 

When on foot and even with the right of way, please remember to look both ways for oncoming traffic before crossing streets, INCLUDING WHEN YOU ARE CROSSING ONE WAY STREETS!  (Looking all four ways at all intersections isn't a bad idea, either!)  

The picture above was taken on Wednesday.  Before turning onto Warren, the driver, with blinker on, waited at the two red lights for a while before they turned green, and he did not have the frantic, guilty look of someone who knows they are headed in the wrong direction.  Did he enter 4th Street from Columbia Street or from Prison Alley?  From State Street, perhaps?)

I would like to suggest to readers to do what I hope to do soon:  Tell my council representatives -- if not the entire council, the mayor and the mayor's Aide/ADA Coordinator -- what needs to be done to combat the increasingly common occurrences of multi-ton vehicles not only being driven the wrong direction on one way streets, but also rolling through pedestrian crosswalks and entering intersections in the wrong direction where pedestrians and other drivers don't expect vehicles to be.

It is long past time for large white arrows to be painted on our one-way streets at the intersections with alleys and at each end of each block.  We do carrots; we can and should do arrows that last closer to two years than two months!  Our tiny and old ONE WAY signs are inadequate and unsuited for a busy 21st century downtown Hudson full of far too much traffic on the weekends with no shortage of drivers (some from other countries) who are unfamiliar with our streets on any day of the week.  The small signs -- the ones that aren't missing, mind you-- are far too easy to go unseen or ignored, particularly by visitors. The problem of wrong way drivers has gotten completely out of hand, and something needs to be done before a person or three -- including possibly a child or two -- are killed or never walk again!  Continuing to act as if there is no problem is foolish and irresponsible -- we all need better from City Hall.  Find the money to get it done and don't accept no as an answer from Rob Perry.  And do not wait for him to do it on his own, because he never will.  If necessary, hire a professional pavement marking company to do the work!  Make it happen this friggin' year, please, before the pavement painting season ends in October, not next year or after!  Do something, and for city residents' sake, do it right!  Make it something we can all be proud of!  Show us you care!  Is that possible?