Campaign aims to clear way for pedestrians
September 23, 2012 at 7:00 pm in Duluth News Tribune
The Share the Road campaign is an expansion of the existing campaign aimed at bicycle safety that began in 2003. The pedestrian focus is under way, with ads appearing this month on Duluth Transportation Authority buses. Continue Reading
The crossing is at the corners NOT in the middle of the street. In front of the transit center the slag pant people figure they just walk back and forth without looking, I have come close to hitting someone almost everytime I go through that area_ I would hit them but I don’t want to have to clean the crap off of my car or my cycle. And the suited bussiness people are just as bad.
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Lake Avenue and Superior Street !!! Drivers shave the cross and have been tapped twice in the leg. Mike I do agree the Jaywalkers mush pony up too.
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Also stop for people who saunter across in the middle of the block like they own the street.
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I completely agree about people who leisurely cross the street, slowing down traffic. There’s no reason for it. However, as far as the transit center goes, that’s just bad design. You’ve got the city’s two main transit centers situated mid-block on both sides of the street – of course people are going to cross there. I know I do if I have to make a transfer in the other direction. Walking to the crosswalk and back takes 4 times as long, and oftentimes you can’t afford that time when the next bus is already there about to leave. I’ve always thought the city could at least make one exception and put a crosswalk mid-block here. But since they’re building a whole new transit center, I hope they can figure out a better system for this.
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As I understand the law, a pedestrian cannot step into a crosswalk and expect an oncoming vehicle to instantly stop. They must allow for a reasonable stopping distance, and the must not cross against the signal. Motorists can sue the pedestrian just as the pedestrian can sue the motorist.
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Things would go a long way to improving if EVERYONE followed any posted signs and signals. The pedestrians walking out against a red light and the drivers trying to beat the red and yellow lights.
I know it seems petty, but starting to ticket jaywalkers downtown would go a long way to helping alleviate the issues at the crosswalks and Transit/Holiday Center.
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You might not be onto something here.
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The brainless f*ols who cross in the middle of the block at the transit center have already been addressed in comments above but how about the idi*t government lemmings who cross anywhere they desire in their walk from the parking lots to the Government Services Center? Go past there at 7:45 to 8:00 AM any weekday and see what I mean. Maybe their union should provide them crossing guards to assist them since the government workers obviously don’t have enough brains to understand they are breaking the law by jaywalking.
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Last evening, I was waiting at a crosswalk at a major 2 lane Hwy waiting for traffic to clear with two young children (holding their hands) and a car stopped to allow us to cross. I preceded across with children when some brain-dead drove around the right side of this stopped vehicle to pass. Fortunately we had cleared the intersection, but then to top this off another car passed same car on right. Duluth, such wonderful people..
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Okay, now explain the dislikes.. Must be to the drivers right..?
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So for you to like this I should have not taken the two young neighbors to the ice cream store..?
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Repeal the pedestrian right of way law, force them to look before they cross and there will be considerably fewer accidents. This also will address the issue of pedestrians deliberately slowing traffic.
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The main problem I have with pedestrian right of ways…..is the false sense of security it may give kids or naive adults who think because they have the “right of way” they can cross with not much thought to the fact that if you’re 100 pounds doing battle with a 5000 pound SUV at 30 mph….and you make the wrong choice, you’ll be “dead right”.
I rarely excercise my “right” to cross the street in front of zooming cars on a busy street unless there is a stop sign or light and even then I give things a good look. I just worry about those who think because they are legally in the right…..they don’t have to worry much about the traffic.
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