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enough wrote: i think this point came up months ago, but as the city continues to install the new illuminated street name signs on traffic signal mast arms, if you're a pedestrian walking against the flow of motorized traffic on a one-way street you won't see street name signs for the cross streets.

Yeah, it's frustrating tying to give directions to pedestrians who are walking against the one-way.  "Go about X blocks to Y street, you'll need to turn around and look up high to see the sign and know for sure..."

Wow...yeah never thought about that. Public works definately needs some alternative transportation voices.

What's irritating is that they took down the signs that were at pedestrian level at the same time they installed the new signs.   These old signs were on different poles.    So they actually went out of their way and spent more money to make things harder on pedestrians.

Someone should sic The Watchdog on it.  (I would but I've done it so many times for other things I'm sure they'd just roll their eyes and skip to the next email. )

Here is some good news!  Just in time for the opening of the PAC.

The next car or bus who damn near clips my heel as I finish crossing the intersection so they can turn right is going to get a dress shoe in their headlight.

In that note, you see me coming to cross, yet you try and cut your stop short at the sign to beat me across. Listen while its 12 degrees out, think you can give me the courtesy of going first or does Johnny dare have you in such hysterics you can't wait to get to work? 

KCPowercat wrote: The next car or bus who damn near clips my heel as I finish crossing the intersection so they can turn right is going to get a dress shoe in their headlight.

In that note, you see me coming to cross, yet you try and cut your stop short at the sign to beat me across. Listen while its 12 degrees out, think you can give me the courtesy of going first or does Johnny dare have you in such hysterics you can't wait to get to work? 

Ha! So true. In a similar vein: this morning I was walking from Downtown to RM and friendly person in an SUV stopped and asked if I needed a ride. I was speechless. I was suited-up appropriately for the walk--I was just baffled as to why you'd assume that someone walking--in the city--needed a ride. It alternately irritated me/cracked me up.

I was somewhat surprised about the overpass announcement, it might seem that it would have been postponed in light of discussions about expanding Bartle over that area and the height and engineering impacts of that expansion.

True....I would guess the engineering firm would be given that as one of the requirements in their design.

The Broadway Bridge is to be replaced with wider sidewalks--starting in May 2011 and finishing in September.

http://forum.kcrag.com/http://www.kcrag ... 65#p452565

The city works director cracks me up in this article:

http://www.kansascity.com/2011/01/29/26 ... p-the.html

?People shouldn?t have to always make requests,? Gagnon said.

Unless it's to get the actual walk signal right Dennis?

Kansas City metro is among the top 20 most dangerous areas for walking

The group Transportation for America ranked the 52 largest metro areas in the country. They calculated a ?Pedestrian Danger Index? based on the average number of pedestrian deaths per 100,000 people and the percent of people who walk to work.

The article says NYC is "surprisingly" the safest. That doesn't surprise me in the least. Why the heck would it be surprising?

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In DC, Philly, and NY, the jobs aren't necessarily in walking distance of affordable places to live.

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KCMax wrote: The article says NYC is "surprisingly" the safest. That doesn't surprise me in the least. Why the heck would it be surprising?

NYC has had some very high profile pedestrian fatalities (trucks & cop cars smashing children/grannies on the sidewalk, etc). in KC it's more like pedestrians getting hit while simply crossing the street -- OMG what are they doing there! -- which ends up being fatal because of our high-speed arterials.

Cool video showing all (cars, bikes, walkers) have a role in making a safe intersection...

3-Way Street

KCMax wrote: If you're so happy in your car, why are you so mad at the people walking?

Even Goofy changes his demeanor when behind the wheel....
Motor Mania 1950

public works has a new policy that requires a pedestrian walk signal appear automatically at all intersections, city-wide, unless they meet certain criteria. once the policy is made public, i'll post it.

there is also a new part of the development code that allows creation of a pedestrian overlay, which gives neighborhoods greater leeway in how such things are managed. no one has initiated an overlay yet, so i plan to make the crossroads the first.

Woohooo