(03-31-2015, 09:33 AM)jgsz Wrote: I'm sure something like this would work here too. There would be some issues with snow and ice in the winter months but I think this is an example of safe street crossing worth pursuing.
"In many communities, people traveling by foot are often stigmatized as poor or mentally ill. Expecting people to carry flags so they can cross without getting killed—in the words of Kirkland’s campaign, expecting them to “Take It to Make It”—only increases the sense that being a person on foot is somehow weird or embarrassing. Cities should instead be doing everything they can to advance the radical notion that walking is a perfectly normal thing to do."
http://www.citylab.com/commute/2014/09/w...er/379878/
Edit: Here's my commentary. Flags for pedestrians crossing the road are not a solution, but a symptom that all hope for a walkable city is lost. They shame, marginalize and stigmatize pedestrians and will serve as a disincentive for someone who would be so presumptuous as to dare take in their city on foot. If they have some small effect in decreasing collisions by inattentive drivers at crossings, this must be weighed against the damage they can do to people's willingness to walk, and cities' willingness to come up with real, permanent solutions instead of bandaids.