The Five Block Scourge of Wausau
Within the last couple months I have gotten increasingly enraged with Scott Street and the people that drive on it. Not the entire road, but a certain section of it. A small five block range of Scott Street, to be exact. Anyone who has driven down that stretch of road, especially when its a busy time of the day, will understand.
When someone parks on that street, they are close to the outside lanes, causing the people driving in the outside lanes to not drive with a little leeway on either side of them, but closer to the middle lane. Sometimes even up to a foot or two into the middle lane. That is increasingly horrible when its a semi, one of the many city buses, or even just a big pickup truck. Not to mention when someone in the parked cars opens their door in complete defiance to anyone that is still driving, with said door proudly in one of the outside lanes.
With this picture, you can clearly see that when cars are parked on Scott Street are directly on the outside border of the outside lanes. The bright white line is edited in to show you the outisde of the lanes, and to show how close the cars are to the outside lanes. They are so close to the lane that whenever you drive, you have to move a little towards the inside lane. When its busy time of the day, you risk running into whatever vehicle is in the middle lane. Even just staying in the middle lane is dangerous. Especially when its a bigger vehicle.
Sure, taking a different street is an option, and so is traveling at another time. Getting out into a busy street from a stop sign is near impossible, and sometimes you don’t have a choice of time. Straight down Scott Street is the fastest way to go, whether or not you could possibly get hit. Hopefully, maybe, possibly something can be done to remedy the awful parking situation.
zeenawombat said:
Coming here from a much larger metropolis, where traffic, congestion, long commutes are all the norm… this seems a non-issue to me, or at the very least something that one has to adjust to as a city grows. People who park on the street need to be mindful of oncoming traffic. That’s just common sense. (or you might lose your car door!)
August 12th, 2008 at 7:50 pm #
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