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My son was a little bit late for dinner last night – no big deal, really – and he told me what he'd done to make up some time. The nearest westbound bus stop to the Devil Girl House, the one you'd use if you were coming from the light rail, just got moved to my street.
The problem? There's no crosswalk there, at least not yet; there may be one soon because the city has been working on that intersection and vicinity since last spring. The street one would have to cross is a four-lane arterial with no median, at the top of a slope, the downward side of which has an on ramp to State Road 99. The speed limit on SR 99 is 40 MPH (~65 km/h).
My son walked across the arterial. In the dark.
The Wendling suffers from anxiety, which means he hates taking the bus, or trying to get a job that isn't a waste of his considerable talents. And yet his squiggy little anxy brain doesn't stop him from doing something that gets a whole lot of people messily, painfully killed around the world every day. And I was completely unaware of it at the time because technically, he's an adult.
Face. Palm. Smoosh.
Edited to add: Yes, the city is adding a crosswalk. The intersection that the Wendling crossed will be pedestrian heaven in about six months. But until then, it's a death trap.
The problem? There's no crosswalk there, at least not yet; there may be one soon because the city has been working on that intersection and vicinity since last spring. The street one would have to cross is a four-lane arterial with no median, at the top of a slope, the downward side of which has an on ramp to State Road 99. The speed limit on SR 99 is 40 MPH (~65 km/h).
My son walked across the arterial. In the dark.
The Wendling suffers from anxiety, which means he hates taking the bus, or trying to get a job that isn't a waste of his considerable talents. And yet his squiggy little anxy brain doesn't stop him from doing something that gets a whole lot of people messily, painfully killed around the world every day. And I was completely unaware of it at the time because technically, he's an adult.
Face. Palm. Smoosh.
Edited to add: Yes, the city is adding a crosswalk. The intersection that the Wendling crossed will be pedestrian heaven in about six months. But until then, it's a death trap.
