[Vision2020] one injured in crossing

[deb]

MessageThe best solution would be 
a: demand students have a rudimentary understanding of physics before they get to college
b: yearly test anyone over 55 (my age) for the ability to multitask while driving (that means to look at traffic, signals, and sidewalks simultaneously)
Just me...
Debi R-S
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Saundra Lund 
  To: vision2020 at moscow.com 
  Sent: Tuesday, September 23, 2008 8:48 AM
  Subject: Re: [Vision2020] one injured in crossing


  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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