[Vision2020] one injured in crossing

[Saundra Lund]

That crossing is definitely a problem, but I'm not sure a pedestrian bridge
would resolve the problem of MORONIC students crossing the highway.  I don't
mean to be contrary, but . . . 

 

Yesterday afternoon, I was on the highway headed east.  There were students
in the crosswalk . . . yet during the time I was stopped, three separate
IDIOTS crossed from campus further east of the crosswalk.  The first almost
got hit by cars heading west, presumably because the drivers were focused
on/distracted by activation of the crosswalk flashing lights and didn't
expect to see a pedestrian strolling across the highway a fair distance
before the crosswalk.

 

I see that kind of thing - students being too lazy to cross safely -- happen
regularly, and I think the miracle is that we've not seen more tragedy.

 

OTOH, a expensive pedestrian bridge would provide a safe crossing for those
with the BRAINS to use it.

 

I don't know what a good solution would be, but perhaps having some
concentrated pedestrian enforcement at strategic times would help?  Perhaps
if word got out among the students that not crossing safely was going to cut
into their beer budgets, it would make that stretch of highway safer for all
of us?  Has that approach been tried?

 

 

Saundra Lund

Moscow, ID

 

The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good people to do
nothing.

~ Edmund Burke

 

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