[Summit] Sidewalk bump-outs

[Breslers]

The bump outs may prevent *cars* from parking there, but that is no help if
people pile up a car's worth of visual obstacles like: bushy vegetation,
sign boards or cafe tables- in our line of vision.  The statewide statutes
have not caught up with this.


On Sun, Sep 15, 2013 at 5:49 AM, Carol Cancro <cscancro at gmail.com> wrote:

> Bump-outs also provide a means of enforcing the statewide (widely ignored)
> statute against parking within 20 feet of a crosswalk:
>
> http://webserver.rilin.state.ri.us/Statutes/TITLE31/31-21/31-21-4.HTM
>
> Carol C.
>
>
>
>
> On Sat, Sep 14, 2013 at 4:12 PM, Hope for Health <
> libertyliterary at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>> Not only vegetation, but parked cars can be a dangerous
>> blockage of sight lines while turning.  I had an accident
>> a few years back turning from Hope St. onto Fourth St.
>> A large vehicle right at the corner kept me from seeing
>> a car heading my way up Fourth.  We hit head on.
>> (No, I wasn't going fast, so fortunately the damage was
>> only to the car).
>>
>> Cicilline's people put a "No Parking to Corner" sign
>> there (right next to Seven Stars).  However, it has
>> mysteriously disappeared since.  I just saw another
>> large vehicle in the same spot yesterday.
>>
>> Blessings,
>>
>> Liberty G
>>
>>
>


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