WPCNR PUBLIC AWARENESS ALERT ADVISORY No. 3. February 2, 2005: In the public interest, WPCNR continues its observations of obvious threats to the public well-being on the roads, in the skys, on the streets, all around the little big town. Today's  "P-Triple A Alert"  scopes in on the bottleneck Eastbound out of the city at the intersection of South Kensico Avenue and Westchester Avenue. The merge-down of three lanes into one at that intersection as motorists vie for space in the one lane narrowage is aggravated by the brain-dead placement of a bus stop that creates a squeezeout when a Bee-Line  stops to pick up passengers. A bus behemoth nearly resulted in my fender being sheared off by an aggressive SUV leaping across my mergepath the other day. At rush hours in the evenings, this is a lovely experience.

The lack of on-surface X-Outs and a sharp thick arrow indicating to motorists that a merge is necessary creates a dangerous contention for lane room, as three lanes narrow to two on the far side of the intersection.  Either the county or the city should seriously think about moving this bus stop, painting arrows or creating a third light for the right hand lane, orchestrating the merge. The WPCNR Mobile Unit was nearly sandwiched by a bus squatly blocking the right lane the other day. If it can happen to me, a person familiar with this travesty of an intersection, it can happen to strangers more easily. Watch your fenders folks. Photo by WPCNR News.