Thursday, March 13, 2008
The municipality responded to my crosswalk email quickly! The next day I received a response confirming that they'd received my email and were forwarding it to the appropriate person. This is the extent to which I expected to hear back from them. But when I got home I had a message asking me to call them back. I returned the call the next day and spoke with the Superintendent of Streets.
He explained to me that crosswalk lines are not just painted on. It's actually a special compound and it is too cold at the moment for them to apply it (maybe repaving the crosswalks at the start of winter was a silly idea then). "But isn't there tape?" he asked. I informed him that there were tapped on stop lines for the cars, but nothing for the crosswalks. So he said next time it was nice out he would have his crews tape down the crosswalks.
It was nice out the following day. So on my way to my bus stop mid-morning I noticed that they'd taped the crosswalks. Victory!
But they only taped down two of the four crosswalks at the four-way stop.
Oh well, I suppose. It's something at least and the sense of safety seems to have increased in response, i.e. cars are actually respecting pedestrians trying to cross!
[Update, Tuesday, March 18, 2008:] Monday morning the real crosswalk and stop lines were painted back on, thus ending the crosswalk saga.Labels: March 2008, photos, transit
posted by Vanessa at 10:07 PM
