Tag: safe crossing

Broadway complete streets update

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Additional posts on Broadway Complete Streets are available at category ‘Broadway Complete Streets‘.

I walked part of Broadway today. Not too much has happened. The street west of 11th St/Riverside has been ground down in preparation for overlay, but no overlay has occurred. All of the motor vehicle traffic signals have been installed and turned on. However, NONE of the pedestrian crossing signals have been installed. One of the claimed benefits of the project, to make it safer for people walking to cross Broadway, has been neglected, put at the bottom of the list. It solidifies my opinion that this is really a motor vehicle project, not a safety project. So it goes with City of Sacramento projects.

Teaching children to cross

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children crossing, Fauntleroy at Alaska, West Seattle (Seattle Bike Blog)
children crossing, Fauntleroy at Alaska, West Seattle (Seattle Bike Blog)

Streetsblog today posted an article “Our Streets Fail to Work for Children” which referred in turn to articles from Akron and Seattle. I commented on the Seattle Bike Blog post “We are failing our kids: A look at Seattle’s terrifyingly normal streets,” but I’d like to amplify my comments and specifically talk about pedestrian education.

Poor pedestrian infrastructure, as documented in these posts, is everywhere, more so in the suburbs and rural areas than in urban areas, but everywhere. The problems include:

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