Has anyone asked for the police report on this crash? Knowing that intersection as well as I do, (I lived on 35th and Grand for 8 years) there are a lot of crashes there because some people run the lights because they don't see them. Many people use 35th and 36th street who aren't from the area to get too and from the lakes and they don't see those lights and run them because they aren't paying close enough attention. My neighbors lived on the corner and had this great front porch on 35th and Grand. On weekend afternoons we would notice at least a couple cars an hour run that light by shear ignorance, at night they would notice it but during the day it happened quite often.
I guess I've seen too many Chicken Little posts from Ken talking about the sky falling about traffic issues when this very well could be a case of someone not paying close enough attention. By the way, if the access project which Ken loves to rail about becomes a reality many of those cars will be passing on 38th and Grand which is a commercial node on all 4 corners where drivers expect to see a traffic light. (oh, the irony) I don't mean to diminish the problem we have with drivers running red lights, it's a huge problem. We also have a huge problem with drivers not paying attention, speeding, and not watching for pedestrians and bikers. I would like to see the city, county, state, and federal gov'ts work harder at public awareness about these issues, I'm sure there are dozens of clever ad guys with not as much to do nowadays who could come up with some great public information campaigns to lampoon this behavior and make everyone more safety conscious. Scott Persons Lyndale Neighborhood _______________________________________ Minneapolis Issues Forum - A Civil City Civic Discussion - Mn E-Democracy Post messages to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe, Unsubscribe, Digest option, and more: http://e-democracy.org/mpls
