07-10-2009, 12:10 AM
nachoman Wrote:I work next to the light rail here in phoenix, and I see scores of people jaywalk across the tracks every day.When in college at the U of A in Tucson, I wrote a paper on jaywalkers. At one of my observation points, it was common to see students jaywalk across 6 lanes of traffic with a center median (Speedway blvd.) from their apartments on one side to the businesses and school on the other side instead of using the pedestrian underpass very nearby. Finally, after a lot of near misses and a few that didn't miss, the city finally ran a fence down the median to force the useage of either the crosswalk at the light or the underpass.