{"id":249,"date":"2012-08-09T13:19:33","date_gmt":"2012-08-09T20:19:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/?p=249"},"modified":"2013-03-12T13:52:23","modified_gmt":"2013-03-12T20:52:23","slug":"safety-improvements-made-at-16th-avenue-and-tieton-drive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/safety-improvements-made-at-16th-avenue-and-tieton-drive\/","title":{"rendered":"Safety Improvements Made at 16th Avenue and Tieton Drive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Contact:<\/strong> Streets and Traffic Manager Joe Rosenlund \u2013 575-6005<br \/>\nCommunity Relations Manager Randy Beehler \u2013 901-1142 \u2013 <a href=\"mailto:randy.beehler@yakimawa.gov\">randy.beehler@yakimawa.gov<\/a><\/p>\n<p>As part of a project designed to increase safety for both drivers and pedestrians at the intersection of 16<sup>th<\/sup> Avenue and Tieton Drive, turn lanes on 16<sup>th<\/sup> Avenue have been removed.\u00a0 Left turns from 16<sup>th<\/sup> Avenue are still allowed, but not from turn lanes.<\/p>\n<p>For many years the intersection has ranked among the highest for accidents in the City.\u00a0 According to the City\u2019s Streets and Traffic Division, a big part of the reason the intersection earned that dubious distinction is the narrowness of its lanes.\u00a0 While some vehicles measure 10 feet from mirror to mirror, the turn lanes on 16<sup>th<\/sup> Avenue at the Tieton Drive intersection were only 8 feet wide and the through lanes measured only 9 and-a-half feet from stripe to stripe.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat sort of configuration just sets up a situation where accidents are going to happened,\u201d said Streets and Traffic Manager Joe Rosenlund.\u00a0 \u201cThe changes we\u2019ve made to the lane widths make drivers feel a lot more comfortable going through that intersection.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Rosenlund said that the best case scenario would be to expand turn lanes at the intersection as well as the through lanes, but in order to do so a significant amount of land would have to be purchased from nearby homes and businesses.\u00a0 Doing that would be very expensive, according to Rosenlund, and the City does not have the financial resources needed to buy enough right-of-way to make such a project feasible.<\/p>\n<p>In early August, crews repaved the intersection, which also will contribute to improved safety.<\/p>\n<p>For more information about the lane reconfiguration and other safety upgrades to the intersection of 16<sup>th<\/sup> Avenue and Tieton Drive, call the City\u2019s Streets and Traffic Division at 575-6005.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/6\/files\/sites\/6\/16th-Ave-Tieton-Drive-Safety-Improvements-8-9-12.pdf\">Safety Improvements Made at 16th Avenue and Tieton Drive (pdf)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Contact: Streets and Traffic Manager Joe Rosenlund \u2013 575-6005 Community Relations Manager Randy Beehler \u2013 901-1142 \u2013 randy.beehler@yakimawa.gov As part of a project designed to increase safety for both drivers and pedestrians at the intersection of 16th Avenue and Tieton Drive, turn lanes on 16th Avenue have been removed.\u00a0 Left turns from 16th Avenue are<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=249"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":252,"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249\/revisions\/252"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}