Nearly hit by a car in downtown Millburn

If you haven't checked out the wine barrel on Springfield Avenue yet, that may save you the trip to Melbourne!

ctrzaska said:

Interestingly enough, when I go to Wine Library I take SA/Morris up and Millburn Ave back.  Millburn Ave to WL is ridiculous at times.

jeffl said:

If you haven't checked out the wine barrel on Springfield Avenue yet, that may save you the trip to Melbourne!

ctrzaska said:

Interestingly enough, when I go to Wine Library I take SA/Morris up and Millburn Ave back.  Millburn Ave to WL is ridiculous at times.

they have a lot of Australian wines?

jeffl said:

If you haven't checked out the wine barrel on Springfield Avenue yet, that may save you the trip to Melbourne!

ctrzaska said:

Interestingly enough, when I go to Wine Library I take SA/Morris up and Millburn Ave back.  Millburn Ave to WL is ridiculous at times.

I have, and liked them enough to think I'll be back there often, but they've got some serious catching up to do.

(And to be fully honest, it did take me a few seconds to catch that...well played.)

max_weisenfeld said:

jeffl said:

If you haven't checked out the wine barrel on Springfield Avenue yet, that may save you the trip to Melbourne!

ctrzaska said:

Interestingly enough, when I go to Wine Library I take SA/Morris up and Millburn Ave back.  Millburn Ave to WL is ridiculous at times.

they have a lot of Australian wines?

Ha!  Love it..

Here is the email response from Mayor Bourke - I should add that he responded very quickly to my email.

Dear _______, 

Thanks for the email, and I am sorry to hear about your near accident.And yes, this is exactly the type of issue that we are looking to address with the Complete Streets plan - amongst many others - and to me, we cannot get there fast enough.   The majority of the improvements  - and the corresponding safety benefits - will be installed from this summer thru next summer (the remaining work hits the areas by the fire dept, etc where we have less pedestrian flow).  I have copied our administrator, Tim Gordon, and our police chief, Brian Gilfedder on this email so there are aware of your issue.  I will be meeting with them later this week on other matters and will add this to the discussion.  Thanks - Ted

Another poster mentioned jaywalkers and double parkers as a problem and I totally agree.  I mentioned this in my email.  As a driver through Millburn, the jaywalkers crossing three lanes of traffic are dangerous and the people who decide to put on their emergency blinkers and take over a lane of traffic just create road rage.

Just came back to this thread.  I wasn't making Australian reference!  Melbourne was my misspelling of Millburn autocorrected!

max_weisenfeld said:

jeffl said:

If you haven't checked out the wine barrel on Springfield Avenue yet, that may save you the trip to Melbourne!

ctrzaska said:

Interestingly enough, when I go to Wine Library I take SA/Morris up and Millburn Ave back.  Millburn Ave to WL is ridiculous at times.

they have a lot of Australian wines?

Yeah, I kinda knew that.  But it was too good to pass up.