Can someone finally trim these trees?
If you have lived in Bellaire long, then you remember when the City had silver street light poles. The standard looking ones you see everywhere in Houston. A while back the City changed to the new black poles and ever since the lights, that used to be monitored by sensors in the ground to change the lights, were replaced to a new mounted camera system traffic flow device. Since I do drive at all hours of the night I can tell you this new system is a joke and even at 3AM you will still sit at an empty intersection for a long time waiting for the light to change. Before, when you approached the light, the sensor would change the light within seconds.
Please look closely at the pictures below and read each caption as it tell the story of what happens at least once a week if not more, EVERY week of the year. This is the intersection of S. Rice and Bellaire. I took these pictures on the way to the Special Session meeting on Monday at 5:30PM. There is a wreck there on average at least once a week and almost all of them involve a car being t-boned and/or causing it to roll over.
One week, a while back there was a wreck there almost everyday and I am guessing they adjusted the lights somehow because that stopped and went back down to once a week. Why hasnt anyone fix this? Did the Police try to figure out why a wreck happens in the same place every week? If they did, then why was nothing done? IF they didnt, what kind of Police do we really have? Did Public Works see that the tree canopy is so thick and needs to be trimmed? If they did, then why was nothing done? If they didnt, do need we to retrain them to look for tree limb overgrowth?
The real issue to me is that NOTHING was done by anyone. To me this fits the same pattern for most things that are so easy to fix in Bellaire. We definitely need better oversight and communication. We need to fix this before someone actually dies.
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- This is driving North, towards the Galleria on S. Rice. Auntie Pastos would be on the left and the church is on the right. Notice one stop light visible.
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- This is the same intersection, just closer to the actual intersection. Notice, through the trees you can see part of a second stop light.
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- This is when you are actually stopped at the light. Notice there are now 2 stop lights visible. If you look in pic 1 that green light is the green light in this pic. While driving you only see one light until you are in the intersection, clearing the tree canopy coverage.
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- This is the aftermath of what happens everyweek since you can not see the second stop light until you are already in the intersection.a
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- This is the view looking south, towards City Hall at the intersection of S. Rice and Bellaire
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- If you look close near the top you can see how thick and dense the tree canopy is and why no one can see the light from the other side.