Q: F.X. Radnich of Temecula is curious to know why some streets have different names on either side of an intersection, instead of the street having the same name. Our reader believes this confuses people.
A: We’ve seen this in just about every city as well; a street is named one thing and when you cross an intersection, the continuing street is named something completely different.
In general, there are several reasons for this. Mary Kopaskie Brown, a city planner with the city of Riverside, provided some perspective with respect to Riverside, but these same factors are typically at play elsewhere, too.
First, the city planning department doesn’t name streets in new developments. When a new development proposes new streets in the city, the applicant is responsible for providing recommended names based on specific criteria outlined in the Riverside Municipal Code; the same holds true for property owners who want to change the name of an existing street. The planning department processes the applications and it’s up to the City Council to approve a street name change, she said.
As to why streets change names at intersections, she said it’s often a matter of two separate, distinct roads that at some point in time, years after they were built or paved, were extended to meet and eventually connect. Rather than changing the names of the two streets, which would affect all of the property owner addresses along the street that had its name changed, the existing street names were maintained. In other cases, a street will change names when it crosses into a new development.
Former Riverside City Councilman Mike Soubirous, who also is a retired California Highway Patrol lieutenant, agreed with Brown that the late connection of two separate roads is often the reason for the different street names on either side of an intersection. But sometimes in other cases, Soubirous explained, parts of existing streets are renamed to honor beloved or famous people, but only a portion or section of a street has its name changed. In Riverside, for example, 14th Street runs through the city, but on the east side, 14th Street was renamed Martin Luther King Boulevard after the curve at the intersection of Pennsylvania Avenue, to honor the slain civil rights leader. Much of 14th Street remains named 14th Street.
Q: Albertina Walski, who lives near Highland, said that while stopped at a traffic light recently, she saw someone pressing the “walk” button repeatedly to cross the street. “It got me wondering how those buttons work. Does it help to change the light faster if you press it more than once?”
A: For some reason, pedestrians want to believe that if you press the “walk” button more than once at the corner, it sends a signal to the crosswalk control fairy to get that “walk” sign activated faster. Does this work? Nope, according to a local traffic engineering expert. Pressing the pedestrian push button multiple times does not cause the light to change more quickly, and this generally holds true for traffic signals throughout the United States, said Nathan Mustafa, city traffic engineer and mobility planning manager for the city of Riverside Public Works Department.
This doesn’t mean that you have to just give up and wait forever, however, if you feel the “walk” button is taking way too long to change, at least not in Riverside. Mustafa said if city residents have any particular light that they feel needs to be evaluated with regards to the wait time, or if buttons appear to be malfunctioning, people can call 311. Anyone can report a malfunctioning light or “walk” signal to their city, generally to the Public Works Department.
In Riverside, newer pedestrian push buttons will play a “wait” message when the button is pressed to let pedestrians know that their input has been received, Mustafa said.
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