Description
Remove the pedestrian beg button from the Buena Vista/Broadway crossing.
Countless kids cross this way to/from Edison Elementary. And kids don't use the button ... they just walk with the green light, like any normal person would.
Turns out, the light usually turns red half way across, causing real potential harm to the children of our community.
Frankly, it's inexcusable we have ANY beg buttons as we claim we're a walkable city, but on a small intersection that students take to elementary school, it's particularly inexcusable.
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A. Unsafe crossing
A. Unsafe crossing
4 Comments
Alameda, CA (Verified Official)
Tulip (Registered User)
An anonymous SeeClickFix user (Registered User)
Re "unnecessary traffic delays", during the day the light is on a schedule. That schedule should include automatic walk signals - doing so would not impact the frequency or duration of car green signals. It's only out of regular hours where it's triggered by cars.
I would know, I (try to) cross the intersection several times a day. On foot, not in my speeding car. Not just once when leaving the island and once when coming back.
Second, if a little "traffic delays" slows cars down at this particular intersection, it wouldn't be such a bad thing. After all, a car killed a bicyclist right there a few months back. "Traffic delays" are a small price to pay for "alive citizens."
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