Tag Archives: Bad drivers

Dashing Through Westport

If you were in Westport last week — the public schools’ spring break — you know how light the traffic was.

The Post Road, Riverside and Saugatuck Avenue — wherever there’s usually congestion, it’s been full speed ahead.

Uh oh.

Some drivers were too impatient, even when traffic is light.

An alert — and partly shaken up, partly enraged — “06880” reader sent not one but two clips from her dashcam. She stitched them together, in the video below.

The first shows someone heading southbound on Bayberry Lane, toward Long Lots Road. A small truck ahead of him or her isn’t moving fast enough, so — right at the 25 MPH speed limit sign, of all places — the driver crosses the double line and blows past.

The second part catches a driver who does not even slow down at the 4-way Cross Highway/North Avenue intersection.  He or she roars straight through — also toward Long Lots.

A few seconds later both the dashcam driver and another, heading the opposite direction, stop at the stop sign.

Both are safe.

For now.

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You Think Compo Acres Needs Some New Signs?!

In all my years in Westport, only once have I seen a car going the wrong way in the narrow drive in front of Compo Acres Shopping Center.

Since the recent renovation though, it’s become an epidemic.

In the space of about 5 minutes yesterday, alert (and very frightened) “06880” reader Susan Shuldman spotted 3 — 3! — drivers who apparently entered by Trader Joe’s.

In the absence of “One Way/Do Not Enter” signs — and/or blithely ignoring all the cars facing them on both sides, and/or mesmerized by the prospect of Robek’s, SoulCycle or the texts they were reading — they casually cruised through the one-way traffic, calmly parked, and went about their business.

Trader Joes 1 - Susan Shuldman

Trader Joes 2 - Susan Shuldman

(Photos/Susan Shuldman)

(Photos/Susan Shuldman)

The good news: Thanks to the new, higher curbs, you can no longer exit directly from that parking lot into the Post Road.