Lying ped light caught on news camera
With cross traffic clearly stopped and a sold red hand displayed "one man, who used a crosswalk when the signal said not to, even put his hand up to drivers." Too often when you press a ped light call button it responds with a diabolical laugh and says "I would be green right now if you got here sooner but now I am going to make you wait another light cycle. That is of course assuming I am working, otherwise you will never get a green light and you have no way of knowing if I am working or not. Bawhaahaa." It is unbelievable that someone actually spent time to make sure ped lights perform like this.
$4 million in pedestrian safety and not one pedestrian countdown light? Something is terribly wrong with how we are spending money and not making the slightest dent in reducing crashes. And has anyone looked at bus stops and how many are near a crosswalk? It makes no sense what so ever to have fewer crosswalks then bus stops. On one hand we acknowledge people do not walk that far out of their way to pick up a bus but then they are expected them to walk many times that distance just to cross the street. This makes no sense! I really have to ask what did they spend $4 million on, benches and landscaping so pedestrains can sit and cry in quiet desperation because of so few safe options to cross the street?
Seriously quit blaming the victim of overly car centric roads. SHA has a complete street policy and this is not even close to doing it right.
As an analogy lets say you have a car with a dangerous exhaust leak in the drivers compartment and you might die as a result. So you decide to spend money on getting a new paint job rather then fixing the problem. Did you spend money in fixing up your car, well yes but did you fix the problem, no! We have got to get the State to spend money in fixing bike/ped problems and not just beautification and allowing them to say they are doing something to fix the problem just because they spent money.
WJZ news report on yet another pedestrian fatality: <a href="http://wjz.com/local/pedestrian.safety.baltimore.2.1708453.html">http://wjz.com/local/pedestrian.safety.baltimore.2.1708453.html</a>;
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