I used to walk about once a week along forty-second street. The walk sign
buttons around the 35W freeway bridge never worked. I called to report them
repeatedly.
It's hard to arrange to have paper and pencil to take location notes when
your hands are gloved in mittens, and its aggravating to call to report
broken lights, especially when nothing is done about them. That route is no
longer one that I walk, so I don't know if the buttons/signs are still
broken, but in more recent years I haven't had much better response to other
calls about lights that don't work as I think they should.
I would also like to repeat what I said once before. Walk lights are a
burden on traffic-law abiders. I am the only one I ever see waiting for the
light when there is no traffic. Once the don't walk light system is in place
it is against the law to cross when it says "don't walk." If new lights are
to be installed, I would hope they would be a very quickly responsive kind
for which a pedestrian could push a button, instead of the normal lighting
system which demands that pedestrians wait at automated intervals regardless
of non-existent traffic. Otherwise, I would hope there would be a law passed
(repealed?) making it legal to cross when the light says "don't walk,"
provided there is no traffic.
N.S. Gill
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Bruce Gaarder" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Tuesday, May 08, 2001 10:12 AM
> Subject: [Mpls] Re: pedestrains and right of way
>
>
> > All of my descriptions have pretty much been predicated upon obeying the
> > law (on both sides). In the example about "capturing the intersection",
> > it was meant that the car was turning right on a green light, legally.
> >
> > If you know of intersections where the WALK light doesn't seem to
function
> > properly, you should report it to the city. I don't know whether there
> are
> > still signals without walk/don't walk lights. I would imagine that if
> such
> > exist, they are at lesser used intersections and might be hard to
convince
> > the powers to upgrade the lights.
> >
> > Bruce Gaarder
> > Highland Park Saint Paul
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >
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