[Vision2020] one injured in crossing

[Matt Decker]

Yes thank you. We can spend thousands if not millions for a crosswalk and stoplight at every intersection, but it will not solve idiots crossing whenever they wish. I am sick and tired of pedestrians and bikers doing as they please, then blaming the driver who just hit them, when they were at fault.


Two years ago I hit an idiot who thought he could wear headphones and not use a crosswalk. This smuck decides that he can cross without even looking and what do you know, I smack him with my passenger side mirror. After I stop and he gathers what just happened, I jump out, throw my hands in the air(like WTF are you doing), he just walks off like it was a daily event. No respect to others or himself.

No doubt, drivers need to keep their eyes open at all times. We all could slow down and stop for the person trying to cross the street. On the flip note, If I am a pedestrian, I will make darn sure the street is clear before I cross it. The old rule of thumb, look twice then cross, pops into mind.

Bikers!!!!! QUIT moving from sidewalk to street then back to sidewalk. If you feel you must congest the streets, then follow the rules. Use hand signals, don't weave, and understand drivers don't know what your next move is. 

Adding stop lights and crosswalks won't solve it. Prevention will. Teach our youth to respect cars. Cars own the road not bikers and pedestrians. Learn it, live it, teach it.

matt

Date: Tue, 23 Sep 2008 09:48:22 -0700
From: sslund_2007 at verizon.net
To: vision2020 at moscow.com
Subject: Re: [Vision2020] one injured in crossing





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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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