By james art 
Reno, Nev. (News 4 & Fox 11) – City authorities said there were no plans to change the design of a short section of the road in the northwestern Renault after a series of dangerous crashes, including one last week, where a tanker truck overturned and failed in someone’s yard.
According to the Renault Police Department, there were 8 crashes between Downey Avenue and Heaths Dr. W. 7th St. Since 2019, News 4-Fox 11 reported in 2021 that there were 6 crashes in the front yard of one person there.
During an interview on Monday, resident Greg Suuyell called on the engineers to change W. 7th St.’s design before someone was seriously injured, but employees said they were limited as the road was an emergency route.
Just pure anxiety and fear and horror that something will happen.
“I spoke to the news. I spoke to the police. I spoke to the movement engineers. I was talking to the mayor who had to continue to grieve. Something has to happen – someone will die,” said a crook.
On this section 7, St. St. St. St. RPD public information employee Chris Johnson said in most crashes, speed is the main reason.
He prayed with the drivers to slow down all over the city, but especially on that part of 7 St. St.
“In order to solve this problem for the good, drivers must ultimately slow down, we must obey the laws of traffic and speed limit, especially in our residential neighborhoods, and we must leave the phones and limit distraction.”
Officials have said city leaders have added warning arrows and feedback signs in this area in recent years. Swindell said they had even added stones to block his front yard at the request of the mayor.
Johnson said the RTC also made the so -called “road diet”, narrowing the road in recent years. But the more narrowing is not possible, he said, because it would target more traffic to the more slow neighborhood streets that cannot cope with capacity.
Turning to the call of Swindle for a better road design, Johnson said that engineers could not add things like speed irregularities or soothing traffic devices because it is an emergency route.
“This is a major route for an emergency vehicle. And so we are not able to put speeds of irregularities at 7th St. and police. “
If we continue to narrow these streets, what we have found is that it can also push vehicles into neighborhoods. If we put some traffic soothing devices such as speed irregularities, people will tend to enter the neighborhoods more, which can cause additional dangers of traffic in the neighborhoods themselves.
Swindell said this was not a problem with speeding, but an engineering problem.
This is an engineering problem. This is not a problem with the police. This is not a problem for Speeders. This is a road defect.
“I don’t buy it a single bit. And if there is nothing they can do. Maybe it’s a legal problem. It may be time to change the law,” he said.
The 4-FOX 11 news requested a repeated interview with an urban engineer for this story and they were not provided on time for our deadline.
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