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@Arl Fan "How about this? Paint a test crosswalk and put up a temporary signal tomorrow. Enlist some volunteers from the neighborhood to count pedestrians and monitor traffic. Use the results to decide whether to keep the crosswalk and the signal. We should have a government that works to satisfy people's needs, not to satisfy its own interests in endless hand-wringing."

Fan ... this is not stuff you find down at Home Depot. Crosswalk paint has to withstand weather, tires, and whatever else for a number of years, be visible in all kinds of light conditions, and be of a certain color and reflectivity. The same goes for a traffic signal. Traffic counts and pedestrian monitoring has to be done by organisations qualified to do so. You don't use someone with a clicker and a beach chair.

These are all federal standards. This is so it's done the same way all over the country. Contrary to your screed, this is precisely in the people's interest, and not the government's.

by Jack Love on Feb 23, 2012 11:33 am • link • report

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