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To the Editor:

While years of complaints by residents about the weekend chaos and rowdiness in West Hartford Center have led the police to increase their presence on weekends, increasing traffic volumes (even before the six new developments in the area have opened) have made the Center an increasing dangerous place for pedestrians.

General lawlessness pervades the center streets including rampant cellphone use while driving, speeding, failure to yield at crosswalks and blatant running of stop signs.

The dashcam footage below captures yet another “near miss” in the Center at the intersection of Ellsworth and Lasalle that could have led to a severe pedestrian injury or death.

The town continues to spend millions of dollars on consultants, expensive traffic management strategies and flashy projects like Vision Zero when common sense would dictate that the first step is enforcing our existing traffic laws.

Shawn London
West Hartford