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Jeff Ward
On Third Street, Accidents and Crosswalk Laws Ain't Workin'
The real solution lies in changing our driving habits, and it can be done!
It ain’t workin'! Our relatively recent pedestrians have the right-of-way in crosswalks state ordinance, that is. Though, truth be told, it isn’t all the different from the old law where pedestrians clearly had the right-of-way in crosswalks. But being the inveterate year-round outdoor runner I am, I can count the number of motorists who’ve deferred to my 2012 street crossing efforts on the digits of one lonely hand. When a driver actually does apply the brakes, it’s such an frightening happenstance that I immediately start to hesitate out of a paranoid fear that an irate reader has finally caught up with me. It would be the perfect crime, wouldn’t it? To make those chickens and the road matters even worse, the city’s reasonable efforts to…
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samcar1
10:52 pm on Tuesday, November 20, 2012
...perhaps a speed bump of sorts right before the intersection: raised outlines of bodies about 100 feet before each intersection. more ›