How do I cross thee? Let me count the ways
October 16th, 2006 | by Eric Fidler | Published in Route 1 | 1 Comment
It’s not often that one can hold up the District government as an exemplar of innovation, but we’ve become fond of the crosswalk timers the city started installing several years ago. Initially these timers only adorned traffic poles downtown, but they now appear all over DC even at barely-trodden intersections.
Good ideas, much like commuter students who drive, typically arrive in College Park rather late. Though there are some recent pedestrian improvements installed in the vicinity of the View, we’re anxiously counting down the seconds until the presence of timers becomes, well, pedestrian.
October 16th, 2006 at 10:58 pm (#)
The interesting thing about the countdown crosswalks is that you have a huge improvement in safety for virtually no money. You would only really need to put them at the two intersections next to downtown. Or we could continue paying police officers to hand out j-walking fines.
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