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District 8 resident urges fixes to Camelback pedestrian signals as council scrubs downtown update
Summary
At the March 4 subcommittee meeting, District 8 resident Chanel Poe said several pedestrian beacons and crosswalk signals on Camelback and Van Buren are unreliable, described near-misses and urged immediate activation of hawk beacons and increased enforcement.
During the call to the public at the subcommittee meeting on March 4, District 8 resident Chanel Poe described repeated near-misses and signal malfunctions at crosswalks on Camelback Avenue and Van Buren Street and asked the city to improve pedestrian-signal responsiveness and enforcement.
Poe said high-intensity crosswalk beacons at 33rd Street and Van Buren and 36th Street and Van Buren sometimes fail to go red immediately after the button is pressed, creating hazardous conditions for families, students and transit users. She also described recurring problems at the pedestrian stoplight at 28th Street and East Camelback, where the walk sign does not always illuminate or drivers ignore the sign when it does appear.
"I personally have been nearly hit multiple times on Camelback trying to cross the street," Poe said. She urged the subcommittee to ensure immediate activation of hawk beacons, to check signal timing and to improve visible traffic enforcement in the area.
The subcommittee had earlier scrubbed a downtown-operations update from the agenda because quorum would be lost; staff said the downtown unit will reschedule the briefing with Assistant City Manager Lori Bays. No formal action on Camelback signal repairs or enforcement was taken at the March 4 meeting.
