CINCINNATI — Hundreds of pedestrians are getting hit by cars in Cincinnati each year as the city works to install 56 traffic-calming projects across 27 neighborhoods. So far this year, there have been 117 crashes involving pedestrians, according to Cincinnati Police data. That’s on pace with this time last year.
In all of 2023, police reported 305 crashes involving pedestrians. With a view from Jay Gee's Barbershop & Beauty Salon in Pendleton, John Green says the current stop signs aren’t cutting it. Last week, he watched as a young boy broke away from his mother and ran out into a crosswalk.
It happened at the same time as a driver approached the intersection, blowing through the stop sign. “We need something right there to avoid the next [collision], because the next one might be a dead kid,” Green said. The crash was captured on a nearby camera: The intersection at 13th Street and Pendleton Avenue will receive the first “stop bump” in the city.
Pendleton Neighborhood Council President Abbey Tissot said a "stop bump" has been explained to her like an aggressive rumble strip that doesn’t cause the driver to lose control of the car. The street isn’t eligible for speed bumps or humps because of the steep decline. “It's really welcome news that they're going to do something,” Tissot said.
As traffic to Pendleton and Over-the-Rhine from Reading Road has picked up in the past few years, the neighborhood council has requested more street calming but hasn’t .