Hobokenpix: 14th St. Viaduct
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February
2/18/2009:
[Continuing the ORIGINAL Hoboken411 "Photo of the Day" series...]
Hoboken Photo of the Day – 2/18/2009
Here’s a perspective shot of the 14th Street Viaduct in Hoboken, home to a deadly accident which took place about a year ago.
The county-owned structure is slated to be widened at some point in the future.
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February 18th 2009 - 17:22:40 |
uh oh, you mentioned the accident. How dare you! Here come the angry messages!
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February 19th 2009 - 00:04:02 |
Yes, uh oh, there are a lot of incidents that just get buried by the officials here in Hoboken. We need to create an on-going check list to keep track.
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February 19th 2009 - 10:54:45 |
what was the end result of that incident? was the driver found guilty of anything? did the family of the victim sue/settle?
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February 19th 2009 - 11:34:49 |
shadowsjc wrote:
life goes on – some families without mothers and fathers
i doubt there was an official cover up as suggested before,
i can’t wait til you’re in charge
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February 19th 2009 - 11:35:50 |
Double wrote:
Did we ever find out who started the fire at 1203 Washington Street?
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February 19th 2009 - 11:55:17 |
shadowsjc wrote:
Since she ended up killing herself, I guess it’s pretty hard to prosecute.
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February 19th 2009 - 12:10:49 |
Every time I drive on this roadway, I think of the tragic accident and use this to reinforce good defensive driving habits that I learned in high school.
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February 19th 2009 - 12:21:42 |
Some lines anywhere on this strip would be nice.
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February 19th 2009 - 18:43:14 |
The viaduct was at one time 4 lanes and a sidewalk on both sides.Did it fall off or just rot away?
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February 19th 2009 - 19:58:13 |
I wish they would just tear this bridge down. It puts a lot of traffic on the roads of Hoboken, is totally unsafe, and we all know what it looks like… I’m sure all property owners near this bridge would agree (I don’t live anywhere near it)
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February 19th 2009 - 20:53:53 |
There are two schools of thought (maybe more) on the viaduct. The first is Sweeper’s, that it dumps traffic on Hoboken roads and is a royal eyesore.
The second view is that the viaduct takes traffic off core Hoboken streets by giving motorists the option of bypassing everything between 14th and 1st streets by taking the hilltop road.
Which is statistically correct? I don’t know, but I am no fan of the thing from a visual point of view. The last thing Hoboken needs is for this thing to be widened.
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February 19th 2009 - 21:37:23 |
How are they going to widen this thing? There is that building (Stevens annex I think) which is built almost right up against it. Then on the other side the Hertz is pretty close too at the bottom.
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February 19th 2009 - 22:08:09 |
Sweeper wrote:
That bridge is a lifesaver when the lincoln tunnel is a disaster and you need to get out of town and head north past the tunnel.
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February 20th 2009 - 07:04:49 |
escaped68 wrote:
Neither. It is wide enough to be four lanes, certainly. However, the lines are gone and people insist on driving 45 going up and 55 going down, which means that it is too narrow to maintain at four lanes. Better to have it two and have the occasional fatality at the bottom, I guess.
While you’re familiar with me constantly griping about the idiot mentality of people in this region, the speeds on the viaduct are also probably a product of reasonable driver frustration as well. After having to go from red light to red light all the way through Hoboken, this is the first chance to finally break free and get somewhere.
Plus, you must speed (!!) up the hill if you want to have a green light at the top. Otherwise, you’re stuck again at a rather long red light, and yet another mother-of-all-red-lights at the intersection with Palisade Plank, which then leads to a series of miserable mistimed red lights going through Union City. Wanna go right instead of left at the top of the viaduct? Forget about it … it can take a half hour to fight your way through the traffic and lights going toward 32nd Street in Union City.
The entire area is set up to prevent cars from getting out of Hoboken. That’s a shame, too, because there is a lot of shopping up on the cliff that I would try to use except it’s such a massive pain in the ass to get there that I’d rather simply drive over to JC or Edgewater. JC and Edgewater are farther from my home, but infinitely easier to get to, simply because the roads work properly.
Do you hear that, Brian Stack, Mr. Mayor of Union City? I would like to spend my money in your jurisdiction, but I don’t and can’t, simply because the red lights in your jurisdiction are so F’d up that I’ll drive three times as far in another direction rather than sit stuck in traffic!!
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February 20th 2009 - 07:09:04 |
Red Haven wrote:
I, for one, use the viaduct very consistently as a way to avoid having to drive through Hoboken. Other than the light at Paterson Plank Road, it’s a good bypass from the Holland Tunnel to uptown Hoboken. If there were a functional traffic corridor through Hoboken with properly timed lights then I’d simply stay down in Hoboken instead.
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