03-31-2015, 10:29 PM
(03-31-2015, 09:33 AM)jgsz Wrote: We were in St. Augustine Beach, Florida, and I was impressed by the safety of some of their pedestrian crosswalks along highway A1A Beach Blvd. Pedestrians had the option of using bright orange/red flags when crossing the road.
I've also seen an interesting treatment of crosswalks in Florida - in Naples there are these crosswalks that automatically flash when you start crossing. Of course, that city's transportation network primarily consists of mega-wide arterials that are uncrossable by any means (and terrible to walk along), so the impact of those crosswalks is moot.
Florida is at the top of the list of the most dangerous places in North America to be a pedestrian. It is too bad they don't fix the road systems that make things like what you highlighted not absurd.